note epoptai As long as you've got -w and [diagnostics] you might as well use [strict] and put them to good use. Also declare your variables with [my] so typos will be apparent. When that is done the only error left is this enigmatic line: <code> die "$!"; </code> which should just be [exit] so it won't try to print the empty $doc and get that nasty uninitialized value warning. Try this: <code> #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # added use diagnostics; use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); use LWP::Simple; my$doc; my$theURL = 'http://www.theredkitchen.net/'; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "The script has successfully started up.\n\n<BR><BR>"; unless($doc=get($theURL)){ print "can't get the URL"; exit; # added } print $doc; exit; </code> This code is tested and works. If it doesn't work for you the problem may lie elsewhere... 93078 93094