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Re: WinInet - InternetCombineURL alternative

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From: Adam
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:44
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When you say "portable" most systems have wininet.dll installed. It is part
of the OS in Win '98 and >. But for users with Win '95 - all they need is IE
4 or >.

Adam.

"justin chan" <jayc@start.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Currently I'm using 'InternetCombineURL' function from WinInet to
> combine a base and relative URL into a single URL.
> eg. Base: http://www.myserver.com/folder/
>     Relative: ../file.html
>     Result: http://www.myserver.com/file.html
>
> However, because I want to make my application portable, I'm removing
> dependencies on WinInet.
>
> Does anyone know if there is an alternative to 'InternetCombineURL'
> and does not rely on WinInet??
>
> Thanks..
>
> Justin
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From: "Adam" <adaml@ihug.com.au>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.inetsdk.programming.wininet,borland.public.delphi.winapi,comp.programming
Subject: Re: WinInet - InternetCombineURL alternative
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:14:36 +0930
Organization: The Internet Group (Sydney)
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