NO, its not stored as CGI session variable.The variable is on the client side, for instance, the user id could be used by any other app inside my web. The click of button in the website will launch the URL for IRC;I just dont get how to get this info(user id) to the CGI file that sits on the server.I know i can send it as query string along with the url, but i want to know if its possible to embedded this one in the html form information that is submitted to the CGI fileThanks again.