Hi, I have several websites that are using a common set of pages (to reduce maintenance, development and upgrading) and use configuration files to give the customer the feeling that it is their own unique site. The customers are all universities and use the sites to manage digitisation and copyright permission processes. These sites are all hosted om my company server. I would like them to be able to see whether a PDF file hosted by their universities is available or not. Using file_exists($url) won't work because the actual PDFs should be sitting behind the universities' firewalls. I think that something working on the client-side, such as JavaScript might work, because it would be able to look from the client's machine to the PDF, both of which should be behind the firewall to the PDF. However, I haven't been able to find any js that looks like it will do that for me. Does anyone have any constructive suggestions? MTIA George in Oxford -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php