Just refreshing using ISAM drivers with either the Jet or ACE Providers, in the snippet below, the URL is valid and the ISAM is installed, but the error is Internet Login Failure, which doesn't make a lot of sense:
cConn='Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html;Extended Properties="HTML Import;HDR=YES;IMEX=1";'
;cConn='Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html;Extended Properties="HTML Import;HDR=YES;IMEX=1";'
oConn=CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
oConn.ConnectionTimeOut=0
oConn.CommandTimeOut=0
oConn.CursorLocation=3
oConn.Open(cConn)
oRS=CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
oRS.Open("select count(*) from [Area Code Listing, by Number]", oConn, 2,1,1)
oRS.Save(dirscript():"htmltest.xml",1)
oRS.Close()
oRS=0
oConn.Close()
oConn=0
Exit