How about using xmlhttp (or asptear) to request the page from localhost?

You could create a COM component (ActiveX DLL) in Visual Basic, call it from your ASP pages, and have it internally the [Microsoft Internet Transfer Control](use http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/inet98/html/vbobjInternetControl.asp?frame=true)[[^](use http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/inet98/html/vbobjInternetControl.asp?frame=true "New Window")] to make the requests to localhost:81. OR (my preferred method) use ATL in C++ and the HTTP API[^] to create the component do it. -- ian "The greatest danger to humanity is humanity without an open mind." - Ian Mariano http://www.ian-space.com/