I tried out webfetcher and got the following response examples.rb dilbert GET http://www/dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive /cygdrive/c/ruby/lib/ruby/1..6/net/protocol.rb:508: in 'new': Invalid argument - "connect(2)" (Errno::EINVAL) from /cygdrive/c/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:508: in 'connect' and so on... I am using win 2000 prof Any ideas what is happening? Thanks Tom Reilly