Hi REBOLs Quite a while ago it was pointed out that if a user name contains a "/" then you get a URL error. Unfortunately I'm working on a site, where the allocated username is basically "hostnameid/myid" Sterling did come up with with a work around for this read [scheme: 'ftp username: "username" pass: "password" hostname: "target host" path: "path/to/file" target: "file.ext"] So I can at least read the files...but what about other actions that all expect a url! or file! ? I need to use Size? and delete, anyone got a way to do this please..... Cheers, Allen K