I was just using Joe's www_tools like this: fetch() -> {ok, B} = url:raw_get_url(?URL, ?MAX), B. I haven't looked deeply into it but there maybe a bug in raw_get_url/2. On Sep 4, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Alan Zimmerman wrote: > Could it be that the characters before the <?xml are some kind of > unicode byte order encoding? -- http://wagerlabs.com/