Thanks Stut we are getting somewhere. Removing the header gives the full binary output of the file in IE and FF. I also removes the echos and have the resized image showing in the browser. So far so good. I know it works. Now back to sending the URL. I have this $img_url="http://www.xxxxxxx.co.uk/images/ENbb24469/room1.JPG"; echo "<img src=\"common/display_image.php?img_url='$img_url'\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" />"; and on the display image page I have: $img_url= $_GET['img_url']; $image = imagecreatefromjpeg($img_url); if ($image === false) { exit; } /// rest of the resize code goes here..... This still does not work but if I plug the url in manually at the top of display_image.php it works, this suggests it is not being sent properly. Many thanks, R. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php