Sorry for the jumble. Just to make it a little clearer, I'm taking out the log records. I wrote a stand alone little perl tool to go out and grab a file from a web service. It works fine. I put the same code in a web page and try to serve it and it doesn't download the file. I'm using fedora 6. I have loaded LWP::Debug qw(+). The output (stdout) of the perl app looks like the output of the web page in the logs. The latter is in the error_log with an [error] annotation, but I assume (maybe incorrectly) that's just where the output goes and it's working ok? Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. dsh