I've been working on this asp page for ages now and can not seem to get my head around it,

bascailly when i do a response.write any '£' symbols are being replaced with '?' doing a response.binarywrite shows the correct symbols but this is no good to me as I need to parse the data.

the code I am using is shown below, any help on this matter would be much appreciated.

Thanks Aaron

URL = "http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&include=0&user id=grand2010&sort=2&rows=25&since=-1&rd=1"
Set objXMLHTTP = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")'
objXMLHTTP.Open "GET", URL, false
objXMLHTTP.Send

sHTML = objXMLHTTP.responseText
response.Write(sHTML)
Set objXMLHTTP = Nothing

This one got me too..

XMLHTTP returns the results as a unicode string.

To solve this, I used Server.CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1") instead. All properties and methods are the same.

This component is available by default on any Windows 2000 Server with SP3. It works in exactly the same way, but for some reason does not return ResponseText as unicode.

If for some reason you MUST use the XMLHTTP component, let me know and I'll explain how (it involves converting the binary output to a string, a time consuming task!)