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download file from internet

#10611
From: ScOe
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:07
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How can i download file from adress like
http://server/dir1/dir2/dir3/file.ext

i've use InternetOpen, InternetConnect, HttpOpenRequest, InternetReadFile
but i allways get 0 sized file.

code:
hInternet = InternetOpen("CBZCommander", INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT,
                NULL, NULL, INTERNET_FLAG_ASYNC);
Inethandle = InternetConnect(hInternet,"server",
        INTERNET_DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT, NULL,
        NULL, INTERNET_SERVICE_HTTP, NULL, NULL);
HINTERNET hResource = HttpOpenRequest(Inethandle,
        NULL, "dir1/dir2/dir3/file.ext", NULL, NULL, NULL,
INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD, NULL);
char buf[4096];
DWORD bytesRead, totalRead = 0, BytesWritten;
HANDLE hFile = CreateFile("e:\\temp\\downloaded.tmp", GENERIC_WRITE,
        FILE_SHARE_WRITE, NULL,CREATE_NEW, 0, 0);
if(hFile == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE){
    ShowMessage("URLDownloadToFileA: Unable to open file for write: "+
        String(GetLastError()));
    }
else {
    while(InternetReadFile(hResource, &buf, sizeof(buf), &bytesRead)){
    ...
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Subject: download file from internet
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