Rick
>>The trailing -- is a major PITA and cause all sorts of parsing problems.<<
Sure. FWIW I've been doing web stuff since 1997 and never really had to worry about protocols and formating, I always had tools that took care of that and allowed me to focus on my app.
Also FWIW we format stuff in dotNET by using West Wind to create properly formed requests and copying it. I kid you not!
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1