Hi Guys, installed php 5.3.6 TS VC9 and apache 2.2.19 OpenSSL 1.0 compiled with VC9 on windows 2003 R2 but now having strange problem that post variables are not parsed. i have tried file_gets_contents("php://input"); this problems is there especially when i post strings starting with capital letters containing !@#$%&^&* nothing logged that i can see as exception. any ideas ? Fatih