Hi all, Thanks for your extensive suggestions and comments. A few folks suggested that SELinux might be the issue. Tobin's suggestion to change one of the settings proved effective: "# setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1". Thanks to everyone who helped -- I learned a lot. Joys Ken -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Greg McClellan Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:04 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] calling another webpage within CGI script Hi, I had a similar problem a while back which was solved by disabling SELinux. http://www.crypt.gen.nz/selinux/disable_selinux.html -Greg