------ art_13309_31548486.1179290459226 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Is there a reason why Hpricot would not be suitable? require 'hpricot' require 'open-uri' body_content Hpricot( open( url ) )/"body").to_html should find the body content of a page I think. cheers Daniel ------ art_13309_31548486.1179290459226--