diff --git a/collects/html/sgml-reader.ss b/collects/html/sgml-reader.ss
index fbcf60f85a..2ba6824350 100644
--- a/collects/html/sgml-reader.ss
+++ b/collects/html/sgml-reader.ss
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 ;; warning - this was copied from the XML collection.
 ;; It needs to be abstracted back in.
 #lang scheme
-(require xml)
+(require xml
+         (prefix-in scheme: scheme))
 
 ;; Kid-lister : (Symbol -> (U (listof Symbol) #f))
 (define kid-lister/c
@@ -18,6 +19,9 @@
  [gen-may-contain (spec/c . -> . kid-lister/c)]
  [gen-read-sgml (kid-lister/c (symbol? symbol? . -> . (or/c symbol? false/c)) . -> . (() (input-port?) . ->* . (listof content/c)))])
 
+(define (file-position in)
+  (make-location 0 0 (scheme:file-position in)))
+
 ;; Start-tag ::= (make-start-tag Location Location Symbol (listof Attribute))
 (define-struct (start-tag source) (name attrs))
 
diff --git a/collects/tests/html/test.ss b/collects/tests/html/test.ss
index 1de5e04cf7..e06d077c7f 100644
--- a/collects/tests/html/test.ss
+++ b/collects/tests/html/test.ss
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #lang scheme
 (require (planet schematics/schemeunit:3)
          (planet schematics/schemeunit:3/text-ui)
+         net/url
          (prefix-in h: html)
          (prefix-in x: xml))
 
@@ -40,6 +41,12 @@
             '()]))]
       
       (check-equal? (extract-pcdata an-html)
-                    ' ("My title" "Hello world" "Testing" "!"))))))
+                    ' ("My title" "Hello world" "Testing" "!"))))
+   
+   
+   (test-case "Eli - March 1"
+              (check-not-false (lambda () (h:read-html-as-xml (get-pure-port (string->url "http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/"))))))
+   
+   ))
 
 (run-tests html-tests)