Okay, here's the situation. The university of Ottawa has a weird setup for accessing internal documents. I can't quite figure out how to make this a bit more automated. They have a not-a-proxy-proxy that you must use. I wish it were a proxy...that would make life so much easier. Example. I want to access a document: http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/asap.cgi/joceah/asap/pdf/jo702189k.pdf If you click the link they'll want you to pay money. The base URL at Uottawa is: https://login.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/login?url= If I want to access the ACS document I need to concatenate the two together. https://login.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/login?url=http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/asap.cgi/joceah/asap/pdf/jo702189k.pdf Which seems to get magically (by the proxy), rewritten as: http://pubs.acs.org.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/cgi-bin/asap.cgi/joceah/asap/pdf/jo702189k.pdf I tried using the mozilla quick search thing...so I setup a bookmark with a keyword 'acs' and a URL of: https://login.proxy.bib.uottawa.ca/login?url=%s but the %s expands the url so I get %2F's and stuff :( Any ideas? mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE