I have squid-2.6.STABLE2-NT on WinXP Pro. I took the example perl script taken from the FAQ section 15.4 and put it in the same directory as the squid executable. Squid does not launch child processes of the rewrite program, and squid exits abnormally on the first request. I wrote a C++ program that executes a busy loop and squid launches it fine. in squid.conf: url_rewrite_program c:/squid/sbin/redirect.pl Active state perl interpreter at C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe (Is the hash bang line even used in Windows, or only by the shell interpreters on UNIX-like OSes?) How do I configure squid to launch Perl child processes on Windows XP? I tried calling perl.exe with the script as an argument but could not find the correct syntax. Thank you, Bruce Richards