Larry, that was awefully nice of you check out the download !! Thanks! I saw the way to set the default timeout from your script. I found that the default was 30. 30 what, I don't know, but it sure isn't 30 seconds, unless that's the entire time for the entire file, rather than the amount of time to wait with no action, before giving up??? I have a slow connection - some sort of shared packet-thingy that runs around as fast as a 56k modem, even though it's supposed to be twice that fast. In any case, I upped the timeout to 90, which is three times as great and it still failed, but it did get a lot further. I am now setting it to 900 like this, system/schemes/default/timeout: 900 And it's still running right now. Can it be set to 0? If you do that and it really is hung, can you break out of it with the escape key at the console? (I guess so?). Oh, and can't you use wait [port] on a port opened on an http:// url? -galt
