win32com.client.Dispatch - understanding error messages

[Duncan Booth]

mirandacascade at yahoo.com wrote:

> Duncan Booth wrote:
>> wrote:
>>
>> Does using an absolute URL for the url parameter help any? You've
>> specified a relative URL (i.e. the folder 12.5.81.49 under the
>> current location). 
> 
> I don't know the answer to that question.  I know that when I'm on the
> same workstation and I copy/paste the string that is the url parameter
> into my browser and press Enter, that a reply appears within the
> browser, and that reply has content that suggests that the browser app
> was able to 'talk' to an application on the other end.  The error
> message being received in reply to the open method make me think that
> the open method wasn't able to talk to any app on the other end.  I'm
> not sure what can be inferred from that observation other than the url
> parameter appears to be valid when it is used in a browser
> application. 
> 
Are you really sure that the browser isn't making guesses about what you 
meant and correcting the error for you? Does what remains in the address 
bar when the page is retrieved really match *exactly* what you copied and 
pasted?