One easy way to see the request object is to traverse its URL, for example; http://www.yoursite.com/path/to/zope_obj/REQUEST displays the REQUEST Object. Althernately, you may add the following lines into your DTML document <dtml-var REQUEST> Note that some objects are not available at the time of the REQUEST, most notably the RESPONSE object. Therefore, the following will give a not found error. http://www.yoursite.com/path/to/zope_obj/RESPONSE But the following should work from within a DTML document or method. <dtml-var RESPONSE>