> I've a problem (experienced also with wget).
> The frist link on the page, as also images, are linked as
> 
<http://web.archive.org/web/20010611033949/http://maxxer.virt>
ualave.net/newsite/rs/
> so the url contains another http:// and fails retrieving.
> Can I avoid this error in some way?
No - this is a server-size syntax error in the URL, and all 
browsers will fail to grab it, unfortunately