Glad i got you pointed in the right direction;
If you can use CLR, i think there's a couple of ways you could do it that way; I had a Web Service i built once as a response to a post here where i passed the web service an URL, and it reutrne dthe html of the page found at the url;
then i used a CLR to call the web service and return the varchar(max) string;
I'm also under the impression you can do it with Service Broker as well, but i've never done that at all.
Lowell