thanks for the fast answering - sorry that i missed some information. thus here the run with debug info. --> the stored image prints a message: "Sorry, this image is currentlyunavailable. Please try again at a later time." a local html-page with <img src='http://est.rbma.com/content/Hagar_The_Horrible?date=2001041'> shows the correct image - the haegar comic. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEBUG output created by Wget 1.5.3 on linux-gnu. parseurl ("http://est.rbma.com/content/Hagar_The_Horrible?date=20010413") -> host est.rbma.com -> opath content/Hagar_The_Horrible?date=20010413 -> dir content -> file Hagar_The_Horrible?date=20010413 -> ndir content --15:28:16-- http://est.rbma.com:80/content/Hagar_The_Horrible?date=20010413 => `Hagar_The_Horrible?date=20010413.2' Verbindungsaufbau zu est.rbma.com:80... Created fd 4. verbunden! ---request begin--- GET /content/Hagar_The_Horrible?date=20010413 HTTP/1.0^M User-Agent: Wget/1.5.3^M Host: est.rbma.com:80^M Accept: */*^M ^M ---request end--- HTTP Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort... HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:28:22 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) Last-Modified: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:10:58 GMT ETag: "481c3b-50ec-38d220d2" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 20716 Connection: close Content-Type: image/gif Länge: 20,716 [image/gif] 0K -> .......... .......... [100%] Closing fd 4 15:28:17 (50.70 KB/s) - »Hagar_The_Horrible?date=20010413.2« gespeichert [20716/20716] +--------------------------------------------------- | Andreas Bohne | DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center) | Central Unit of Spectroscopy / R0400 | Molecular Modeling Group | Im Neuenheimer Feld 280 Tel:+49(0)6221/42-4541 | D-69120 Heidelberg Fax:+49(0)6221/42-2995 | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | URL: http://www.dkfz.de/spec/