Do you get the same result with the URL above? (I'll leave it online for testing purposes.) And can you send the headers sent back and forth between Drakma and the server to the mailing list? How does your HTTP-REQUEST call look like?

Thanks for your help, Eli. Here's what I get. I'll try to debug this as well a bit later today.

cg-user(10): (setf drakma:*header-stream* *standard-output*) #<listener-pane :listener-pane in IDE GUI @ #x71eded8a> cg-user(11): (drakma:http-request "http://zappa.agharta.de/test.xml") GET /test.xml HTTP/1.1 Host: zappa.agharta.de User-Agent: Drakma/0.10.1 (International Allegro CL Enterprise Edition 8.1 [Linux (x86)] (Sep 24, 2007 12:17); Linux (x86), glibc 2.3; Linux Xubuntu 2.6.17-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Aug 29 20:08:20 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux; http://weitz.de/drakma/) Accept: */* Connection: close

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:17:58 GMT Server: Apache Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

#(50 101 32 13 10 60 104 116 109 108 ...) 200 ((:DATE . "Sat, 29 Sep 2007 16:17:58 GMT") (:SERVER . "Apache") (:CONNECTION . "close") (:TRANSFER-ENCODING . "chunked") (:CONTENT-TYPE . "text/xml; charset=utf-8")) #<puri:uri http://zappa.agharta.de/test.xml%3E #<flexi-streams::flexi-latin-1-io-stream @ #x721f5362> t "OK" cg-user(12):