From: kazaam Date: 2007-10-08T01:40:13+09:00 Subject: Re: newbie... be gentle Well I don't know this webservice so I can't test it totally but why do you make it such complicated? You don't have to assemble the http-header yourself... little example: #!/usr/bin/env ruby $Verbose=true require 'net/http' user_id = '32423423' track_id = '5454545' Net::HTTP.get_print 'testing.shippingapis.com', "/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=TrackV2&XML=%3CTrackFieldRequest%20USERID=%22#{user_id}%22%3E%3CTrackID%20ID=%22#{track_id}%22%3E%3C/TrackID%3E%3C/TrackFieldRequest%3E" -- kazaam