Many thanks for your help Ken, it has got me moving again. I added the undecoded option and set it to FALSE which caused exactly the same problems as I had been experiencing without it. Setting it to TRUE however makes everything work.

This is not quite what I was after since the file I am trying to retrieve is a text file but to be honest I can probable work around any issue that might come up because the file was not decoded and to be honest I have no idea what the undecoded flag actually does other than what the docs say, which isn't much!

Still, I can move forward with this now so my thanks to you.

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