Ok BluPhenix, I have to admit I'm no expert as regards this TCPIP HTTP malarkey - but I do know that the method I posted works 100% reliably for my device - though I'm willing to accept that it may be more by accident than design!

In my case I would have liked to have used the philips HTTP library but had no success - I believe that's because as far as I can tell it does not support authentication?

Also I omitted the socket.close() command because my device closes the connection at then end of each response - according to it's response - if that makes sense!

Anyway, like I said I'm new to this aspect of this so any input welcomed.

Cheers

Zed