New In c and c++. Downloading data from a server

Eli Nurman

Hi. I am very new to C and C++, what is the best way of downloading data from a HTTP server, meaning, how to i download the HTML from http://www.google.com?

Maximilien

Have a look at the MFC classes CHttpFile and CHttpConnection ... also, look at this article on CP : Retrieving a file via. HTTP[^] Max.

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David Crow

One way would be with URLDownloadToFile(). Other ways exist, too.

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Eli Nurman

Hi. i am developing to a linux device, is there any way without MFC?

Maximilien

Well, since it's a Windows development site, I assume you were developing for Windows. on linux, yeah, there's probably something that does it; but it's probably more complicated. a quick googling returns this : http://curl.haxx.se/[^] or this : http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Web_scraping[^] just to give you a good start. good luck.

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Aescleal

I'd recommend cURL, it's got an interface only it's programmer could love but it's actually fairly easy to do what you want to do. Run, don't walk to http://curl.haxx.se/[^] and download it. Actually if you're using Linux it's probably available as a package in your distro. Cheers, Ash

ThatsAlok

very simple and good article for achieving your goal :- AmHttpUtilities[^]

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Eli Nurman

thanks for the help