i consider myself pretty well versed with efficiency based upon server performance and apache conforms for me pretty well in plugging in modules to suite my needs and users demands. But I just don't see how you can use Common Gateway Interfacing for this task. I found your thread through a search engine looking for this exact same type of discussion but theres no way I'm gonna pipe gimp to apache in this manner. But Hey Man if you fetch yourself a release of mod_wsgi or mod_python this cgi method might just be doable, but with a lot of users running this, it could be hazardous. With My method I am developing I am going to use (hypothetically, I have not done this) a seperate module for gimp which will thread request's to and fro mod_wsgi(which I have just config'd and am working on the kinks). I would be more than happy to share my progress. Check out my website in a couple of days (http://site.google.com/site/abstractind) -- Subscidiary Faction of AbstractIndustrys _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer