Rich asked:

>Is there some way to convert the url variable to a web url?


Rich,

I'm on the road with no way to test, but play with something like this:


dim as Str255      url
dim as CFURLRef  imageURL

url = 
"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Phalaenopsis_JPEG.png"

imageURL = fn CFURLCreateWithString( _kCFAllocatorDefault, fn CFSTR ( 
url ), 0 )


Ken