k...you are saying that you dont have access to the mother site. Does that mean you are trying to get data from a standalone site (completely independent of you, say like ebay.com) if that is the case the job becomes even more difficult..you will have to write a web crawler which requests every page from the mother site, parses every page and then updates the child site. >> and the account cannot be reached with a browser. ( i need to clarify that with them and it will take abt 6- 10 hrs) can you elaborate on this ?