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When you are attempting to read a URL by using the filename
URL engine via a DATA step, the following error might appear:

   ERROR:  Write Access Violation In Task ( DATASTEP ]
   Exception occurred at (xxxxxxxx)
   Task Traceback

This error can occur if the URL that  you are attempting to read is no
longer present at the site AND the site has in place a redirection
page that is set to surface.

The best way to determine if you are encountering this scenerio is to
add the DEBUG option to your FILENAME statement and to rerun the code.
The resulting log should appear similar to the following:

   NOTE: >>> GET /DandL/f/fireman.02-4355.html HTTP/1.0
   NOTE: >>> Accept: */*.
   NOTE: >>> Authorization: Basic
   NOTE: >>> Accept-Language: en
   NOTE: >>> Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
   NOTE: >>> User-Agent: SAS/URL
   NOTE: >>>
   NOTE: <<< HTTP/1.1 302 Found
   NOTE: <<< Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 11:06:53 GMT
   NOTE: <<< Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27
   NOTE: <<< Location: http://www.dice.com/errors/notfound.html

Notice that the first line is trying to locate the file specified in
the filename statement, but the last line is referencing a completely
different URL.

A Technical Support hot fix for Release 8.2 TSLEVEL TS2M0 for this
issue is available at:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_sbcs_prod_list.html#008405

For customers running SAS with Asian Language Support (DBCS), this
hot fix should be downloaded from:

http://www.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_dbcs_prod_list.html#008405

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) for this issue is available at:

A fix for Release 8.2 (TS2M0) with Asian Language Support (DBCS) for this issue is available at: