Reading text from the internet.

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Davo (Posted 2004) [#1]

Im trying to create an application that, ideally, would check a simple text file from my webserver. Now comes my problem. So far, I havent been able to make it look up this text file. The program always returns with a bad stream handle. Is my method actually possible? Any help would be great. Thanks.

soja (Posted 2004) [#2]

You could use InternetOpen, InternetOpenURL, InternetReadFile and InternetCloseHandle. Look them up on MSDN. They're defined in wininet.dll. If you need help, I've done something like that before.

dan_upright (Posted 2004) [#3]

you should be able to do it by adapting this: http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=24

Davo (Posted 2004) [#4]

Cheers, both of you.

Davo (Posted 2004) [#5]

If you dont mind, could I have a small example of how to call a *.dll file and then use it? Ive never tried this method before so im a little lost. Thanks.

Eikon (Posted 2004) [#6]

Hi Davo, check this: http://www.blitzbasic.com/sdkspecs/sdkspecs/userlibs_specs.txt