note giulienk I try a solution: untested code ahead. <code> use IO::File; my $fh = IO::File->new_tmpfile; $image->Write(file => $fh); seek($fh, 0, 0); $ftpSession->put($fh, $filename); </code> The temporary file will be erased as you close it. It's in someway as it never existed and it's just useful to pass a filehandle to the [kobe://Net::FTP] <tt>put</tt> method instead of a scalar (that the method doesn't accept). <P><BR><TT>$|=$_="1g2i1u1l2i4e2n0k",map{print"\7",chop;select$,,$,,$,,$_/7}m{..}g</TT> 168449 168449