Markus,

Ok.. Rick Strahl mentioned in a message that he thought my computer was incorrectly set up. That sounds more reasonable to me as well, particularly since there was an entry in my HOSTS file.

Thanks again,

Best,

DD

>Hi Doug
>
>Maybe I lead you just to the wrong side. It's true, that the URL or better it's domain name part is the representation of a numeric adress. But that seems not to be the problem. If the www-class doesn't work that way, then look in the network settings of your computer, what's the name of your machine and try it like
>
>HTTP://myWS/ .....
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>This leads me here to my local IIS also.
>
>Regards
>Markus