In reply to Stephen Mc Cawille.

Stephen, my first check would be for a proxy server -- can your SAS environment get to the Internet directly or does it need a PROXYHOST= option on PROC HTTP? Next, depending on the site you are trying to access, are the certificates in place for SSL support. There are SSL* related options that can tell SAS where to look for certs, but usually on Windows it happens without that intervention.