This is the main idea behind fastcgi or persistent cgi (as with zope/apache , http://www.zope.org). -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:fritz.heinrichmeyer at fernuni-hagen.de FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355 http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh