It certainly *should* work - have you tried with urllib2 ? I assume the page works when fetched with a browser ?
You don't have any proxy settings do you (Python can pick up on these automatically) ? What error are you getting (or what value in data) ? All the best, Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
