Using LoadVars to load cbsnews.com sometimes returns GIF89a

Question

For some reason when I use LoadVars in actionscript 2 to load cbsnews.com, I sometimes properly get the html for the page and other times I get GIF89a. I'm not sure what this means, so any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Here is some sample code to test it yourself.

var foo:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
foo.onData = function(bar) {
    trace(bar);
}
foo.load("http://www.cbsnews.com/");

Edit: I tried to follow the advice of Chris Shaffer, but it seems that there is no simple way of writing response into a gif file in flash. I feel like this is strange so I'll keep looking for a way to write the response into a gif file, but if anyone knows how or has another suggestion please let me know.

Answer 1

GIF89a is the first several bytes of a .gif file; I'm just guessing, but perhaps CBS has limits on the number of requests you can make in a particular period of time, after which they serve up an image (to stop screen scraping and/or illegitimate use of the site).

It's just a guess; Is there a way you can make the request and save the full response to a file, so you could then view the .gif when it is returned?