What is the original value you're trying to encode? AT&T? And if you go to http://server/page.asp?phone=AT%26T and do a request("phone") on that page, what do you get? Chris Blessing webguy at mail.rit.edu http://www.330i.net > Yeah, I tried encoding the URL by hand, and it still seems to fail. > > I used "phone=AT%26T", but no luck. > > Josh