Hi:
DownloadNetThing and getNetText returns netError 4165 when I execute following
lingo command in Director MX authoring environment.

netID = downLoadNetThing("http://www.hostname.domain/filename.extension",
"Full path to my local file")

put netDone() ....... This shows 1
put netError() ........ This shows 4165

Now if I paste above http url in Internet Explorer it shows the content of the
text file!

I have installed Director MX ver 10 on Windows-XP (latest update). There is no
antivirus or filewall software installed on my computer. I tried adding
Director MX as application in the exception list of windows firewall. Still the
operation fails.

I would be very much thankful if someone let me know what is going wrong.
Thanks for your time.

Deepak

netID = downLoadNetThing("http://www.hostname.domain/filename.extension",
"Full path to my local file")

y googled for 4165 an found that can be bad url or file error.

If fails by url change downloadnetthing by getnettext (like the help example
getNetText ("http://BigServer.com/sample.txt")), dont use the browser to test
the url, that is because netlingo and a browser works different (the browser
has cache, for example)

after netdone = 1 check nettextresult().

That is to isolate the problem, if this fails, is a net problem, if not is a
file access problem,

What is the real extension of the file you're trying to download?
It may be that your server is gzip encoding your data which will fail
with netLingo. There was a thread related to this on Direct-L some time
ago - you could search there as a last resort. The first thing you
should try is looking at the headers returned by the server - any packet
sniffer will help with this.