From: "Bartosz DziewoƄski" Date: 2011-10-08T21:46:18+09:00 Subject: Re: open of web page fails Not backslash-escape, URL-escape - with the percent signs. Read my previous post again - you can use CGI.escape() for this. Also read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url_escape -- Matma Rex 2011/10/7 Joe Collins : > open("http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv\?s=MS+\^DJI+\^GSPC+\^IXIC+IWB+IWM+IWV+TMW+\^VIX+\^TV.N+\&f=d1t1sl1c1\&e=csv") > > Here it is escaped and it still fails....any ideas?