IP obfuscation is a pretty poor term for it, except if we're talking about Internet Explorer what is IP obfuscation, you ask? it is the conversion of the "dotted quad" notation for IP numbers, e.g. http://216.119.117.224 into a single integer, e.g. http://3631707616/ there's some javascript code for the conversion here -- http://javascript.internet.com/equivalents/ip-obfuscation.html but my question is this: how come Internet Explorer doesn't understand the single integer convention? all the other browsers i've got understand it is it some sort of setting i'm not aware of? i'm on win2000pro ie6 or is this why they call it obfuscation? rudy