Hello John, sleep() is the brute deffense of the brute force attack... You can make a script that opens simultaneous attacks JWH> I'm not saying using sleep is "the solution" to security problems, but JWH> it can be one layer of your defense. -- Best regards, Pablo -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php