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From: Doug Schwarz <douglas.schwarz@kodak.com>
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.matlab
Subject: Re: URLREAD and password protected url...
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 13:11:27 -0400
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In article <eec2a4f.6@WebX.raydaftYaTP>,
 "Michael Robbins" <michael.robbins@us.cibc.com> wrote:

>Maybe it's the website, not the technique. I can access the website
>fine via MS Internet Explorer.
>
>
>>> [s,status]=urlread('<http://u1/u2:p@www.c.com/private/>')
>
>
>s = ''
>status = 0


I don't think you want the <> characters in there.  Try

  [s,status]=urlread('http://u1/u2:p@www.c.com/private/')

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Doug Schwarz
Eastman Kodak Company
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