I think this is a lost cause, but I have the following problem. I want to use sessions to store a 'flash-enabled' true or false value so I know what content to serve up. No problem so far. If the SESSION object doesn't have a 'flash' key and there is nothing in the request (query string), I want to redirect to a detection page that then sends the user on to either a flash enabled or disabled page. Still no problem. The problem is, if the user is blocking cookies, then they'll be forced through this procedure *every* time they follow a link on my site :-(. I can't use the urlencode() method as links will be embedded in content and my authors are not smart enough to do this. Is there any way I can tell server side if the user is blocking my cookies? cheers, tim