I am a firm believer in sharing information. here is a working program i just wrote and tested. it my not be clenched-buttock tight code. but, blast it, it works!!! Lou #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use diagnostics; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; ############## ##declared variables ############## my $webpage; ############## ##Do not change the above code!!! ##Counter 1.0 ############## ############## ##change to your webpage below to store information on visitors ############## $webpage = "/home/yourwebpage/cgi-bin/data/refs.htm"; ############## ##print to webpage ############## print "We are glad you came from<BR>"; print "$ENV{HTTP_REFERER}<BR>"; ############## ##open file, print info, close file ############## open(A,">>$webpage"); print A "$ENV{HTTP_REFERER}\n"; close (A); exit;