I don't get an empty string when I run your code using 2006r3 on XP. It doesn't make sense that you would get an empty string -- it's either a weird bug or you had some other unaccounted for problem.
As Mars said, though, the text is being returned to you as text/html with ISO-8859-1 encoding. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
