Runtime error with 'get URL'

[Mark Powell]

I am on Windows 2000 with two machines A and B.  I develop and debug on A,
but test standalones on both A and B.  I have a runtime error that I have
isolated to the following code in the preOpenStack handler:

...
get URL ClientDataCurrent
answer "calling from preOpenStack, this is what is \ 
   read from the data_current file:" & return & it
if (the result is not empty) then
   <exit routine>
end if
put it into gWhatever
...

On machine A in both the IDE and standalone, gWhatever is populated and
everything works as desired. On machine B, the code gets nothing from the
text file (confirmed by the answer dialog during runtime).  The result
testing is not triggered in any scenario.  Moreover, on both A and B I can
validate connectivity by pasting the URL into a browser and seeing the data
directly.

Any ideas?  Are there additional tests I can do during runtime that will
shed light on this?

Mark