I activate a Servlet using the LWP and HTTP modules from Perl. The response is read using HTTP::Response. Rather than having to parse through the content looking for returned data to extract into variables for further processing, I just wondered if there was a neater way in Perl to do this (or even from the Servlet in the first instance?). Think that you can't use object or text serialization in Perl (as you would if it were an applet) - or can you ? Any help = much appreciated.