Any help would be highly appreciated. Please advise me on the strategy itself or help me shooot out a few troubles. I have to transfer a file from a Windows machine to a Linux web (Apache) server. The windows machine monitors/measures something and has to send the data to the server; the concept is to be able to access that information almost "live" through the web. So, the file-transfer thing has to be unattended and also recurring on a preset interval, say every 10 mins. My "latest" plan is to, 1. Create a web-page on the server that processes the file-upload from a trusted domain. (this one done- fine with PHP). lets say: "pull.php" 2. Schdule (windows task scheduler) to invoke that URL address and pass the file as the parameter. For this, I am scheduling a windows script (lets say, "push.vbs"- this one done) that LOCALLY creates a html-form (lets say "upload.htm") on the fly which is auto-submitting on the "body-onLoad" event to the (POST method) "pull.php" on the remote web server. The form has a "file" input type, the value of which is the file that i want to pass on to the web server. Whenever my script is run, a browser window opens (for the local "upload.htm" created on-the-fly). I can only shell-launch a job from windows scripts. Every hour, there are six browser windows open. Ques: Is there any way to invoke/excite/execute a URL without opening a browser window? Then, I thought of redirecting. The local "upload.htm" will call "pull.php" on the server which will redirect it to a "bye.htm" that publishes some javascript to kill the current window. Ques: Is there any javascript means to kill the current window that is not opened by the javascript itself? I played with self.close() and likewise stuffs but that again shows a confirmation alert like "do you want to close the window?" before the window can actually be closed. (default browser is IE in XP-Pro SP2) OR, Is there any means of unattended http-type file upload to a server from a windows machine? Or any means that can be scheduled? (FTP not pref) Thanks in advance Please make me keep rolling...