Best way to open a HTML file from an URL

Joschwenk666

Hallo, I try to open the html return from an Internet URL, for example http://leavemusic.de/live/leavemusic/index.php, and I want to get the html code in a CString. What is the best way to do it? It does not work with CFile for me. Thank you!

David Crow

Have you tried URLDownloadToFile()?

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Aescleal

If you don't want to use the function David suggested and if you've got time to experiment I can wholeheartedly recommend using cURL[^] for what you're trying to do. It's very customisable, flexible and portable. It's also got a bit of a clunky C handle based interface only it's programmer could love but for the sort of thing you're after it's not too bad. It took me about 4 hours of reading and playing to get a small file downloader working with it. If you know how to use sockets then you could just open a socket on the remote computer, send and HTTP get and read everything between the opening <HEAD> tag and the closing </BODY> tag. I'd only recommend this method if you're already comfy with network programming otherwise the small details might get a bit much. Cheers, Ash