Hi Zopers It looks like I'm going to be using cookies now, and I don't find any How-To on cookies. What's the most instructive place to look? "UTSL" is fine as an answer, especially if it points me somewhere, and even more if it's DTML source .. The *ZQR* is a bit too cryptic for me. The *DTML Ref* has a bit more:: 8. Dictionaries are objects that support looking of data by name (e.g. REQUEST.cookies['CUST_ID'] to look up a cookie named CUST_ID). Dictionaries have has_key methods for checking whether a dictionary contains a value (e.g. REQUEST.cookies.has_key('CUST_ID') ) and methods keys , values , and items , for updating lists of dictionary keys, values, and key-value pairs (e.g. REQUEST.cookies.keys() to obtain a list of cookie names). .. but I don't understand yet how 'keys', 'values' and 'items' are going to help me *update* the lists -- it seems to refer only to querying them, AFAICS .. -- Jean Jordaan -- technical writer -- Mosaic Software -- Zope 2.1.6 on WinNT and W2K