>My bad - readurl requires http:// and not just
www.somedomain.com/somepicture.jpgYes, it's easy to forget that part with modern browsers fill this out for the user automatically. However, the protocol (http://) is still part of the URL, and internally, the browser still has to send it.
"For the programmer, nothing is automatic."
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)