Other methods for accessing a URL

Greets folks. I've got a URL which is giving me some problems. IE5 loads it fine, but 'read and 'read/binary give me: ** User Error: URL error: http://address.omitted ** Near: read http://address.omitted I know there's a way around this, but I can't remember the code snippet. I know a similar question had cropped up in the past, but I can't find the post now. Anyone help? The address is in the form of http://site/dir/dir/file.ext?args&args ... thing is, args includes characters like %3C and arg=123 a couple times. Any assist? Thanks. --Charles