Download a Web Page using InternetOpenUrl API

This article describes about downloading a Web Page using InternetOpenUrl API.Before talking about InternetOpenUrl, we need to look into InternetOpen API.

Mahesh Chand

Jul 26, 2000 · Updated Feb 27, 200639.8k30100Article

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salman18y ago
I have to download an image from a specified website. e.g http://www.cssnz.org/flower.jpg and I want to save this image data into a file. After that I want to look that image. Please tell How can i do that. As I am new to this VC++ coding. I shall be very thankful to you.
- Luong Hung16y ago
  void downLoadImageFromURL() { CString strURL = "http://www.sachbaovn.vn/cover/s_562_Tro_choi.jpg"; HINTERNET hINet, hFile; hINet = InternetOpen("InetURL/1.0", INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG, NULL, NULL, 0 ); if ( !hINet ) { AfxMessageBox("InternetOpen Failed"); return; } hFile = InternetOpenUrl( hINet, strURL, NULL, 0, 0, 0 ); CFile cf; cf.Open("C:\\s_562_Tro_choi.jpg",CFile::modeCreate|CFile::modeWrite); if ( hFile ) { CHAR buffer[1024]; DWORD dwRead; while ( InternetReadFile( hFile, buffer, 1023, &dwRead ) ) { if ( dwRead == 0 ) break; cf.Write(buffer,dwRead); buffer[dwRead] = 0; strURL += buffer; } InternetCloseHandle( hFile ); } InternetCloseHandle( hINet ); cf.Close(); }
Rowyda Mohamed20y ago
Hello This article is good and very useful but i want to know how to download a webpage and divide it into threads to accelerate downloading of a webpage. Thank you