i try to use the Network.CGI package from darcs. my testing uses the example code from the webpage 'practical web programming in haskell' http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Practical_web_programming_in_Haskell#Gett... specifically the example with code: import Network.CGI import Text.XHtml inputForm = form << [paragraph << ("My name is " +++ textfield "name"), submit "" "Submit"] greet n = paragraph << ("Hello " ++ n ++ "!") page t b = header << thetitle << t +++ body << b cgiMain = do mn <- getInput "name" let x = maybe inputForm greet mn output $ renderHtml $ page "Input example" x main = runCGI $ handleErrors cgiMain -- Get the value of an input variable, for example from a form. -- If the variable has multiple values, the first one is returned. -- getInput :: String -> CGI (Maybe String) this runs (runghc) and produces the output: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ><head ><title >Input example</title ></head ><body ><form ><p >My name is <input type="text" name="name" id="name" /></p ><input type="submit" value="Submit" /></form ></body ></html > which is clearly not producing the second part of the code, namely output a greeting. the same happens with the next example, using cookies, where from two options for pattern matching only the first is include in the javascript. i assume that i do something wrong - but what? any help is appreciated! andrew