While I never got around to posting this problem to this mail list, it has been troubling me for some time and I found a resolution and thought I'd share it. The problem: I've wrote a simple script that uses LWP::UserAgent to automate some form posting. It works fine as a .pl, but after using PerlApp to compile to an .exe, when run the result is a return code of 500 and this error: Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_foreign" I went through the usual iterations of compiling and then running, and noting the error messages of what was missing so I could manually add those components at compile time and ended up with this compile line: perlapp myprog.pl -f -add URI::_userpass;LWP::MediaTypes;LWP::Protocol::http;File::Basename This still did not get rid of the other error (above) however. I tore through every module I could find to find the cause of the problem to no avail. Searching the archive of this mail list I found someone a year ago or so with the identical same problem and the posted answer was "use Win32::Internet instead." Unfortunately I couldn't do that because I'm doing a "type=FILE" type function and need to have the ability to pass a filename whose contents should be used as the value of the field. Win32::Internet doesn't seem to support that but LWP::UserAgent does. The solution: Leaving the details of the ordeal out, the final answer is to include this in your PerlApp line: -add URI:http in in addition to the other components that are being added. Unfortunately this missing component didn't give a nice happy error message that pointed to the cause like the others did. Hopefully this will help save someone else from pulling out large clumps of their hair. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users