Malcolm Lear wrote: > Is it possible to download a file from a web address using the > TCP/UDP sockets and an Sbasic program? I've been looking for > documentation and programming examples with no success.
Yes, it is possible. The protocol you have to speak is HTTP and described here http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt Here's a very very basic program that requests the main page from the QL-Today web site: 100 OPEN_IN#3,"tcp_www.qltoday.com:80" 110 PRINT#3,"GET / HTTP/1.1" 120 PRINT#3,"User-Agent: QPC browser" 130 PRINT#3,"Accept: */*" 140 PRINT#3,"host: qltoday.com" 150 PRINT#3 160 REPeat 170 INPUT#3,a$:PRINT a$ 180 END REPeat Marcel _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
