Hi John You can make the proxy server proxy any request to the backend server. Then you don't need any redirects and it is much cleaner. This is very easy as a proxy server is set up as a proxy client jus tlike any other client. See http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/Status.html I think the exact ULR is something like http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/User/Proxies.html -- cheesr -- Henrik