I think you are right about that. I must have been thinking about javascript at the time.
But the difference is mainly is that the process of generating the page (html) page is put on the web server , not in a behind the scenes in a seperate script.
Bob Lee



>Bob,
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>I'm not sure I follow you here. How can PHP, JSP or ASP do such a thing? Once the page has been served to the client, any other request (or refresh) is a new hit, and the entire page has to be redrawn anyway!