Re: download function

From:
"Jim Langston" <tazmaster@rocketmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:44:03 -0700
Message-ID:
<GoCGi.44$eN2.4@newsfe02.lga>
"Jan Janssen" <no.spam@nomail.com> wrote in message
news:fce5lb$s1m$1@uploadreader.eweka.nl...

Dear sir/madam,

I am writing a program which is some kind of moviedatabase based on a
struct filled with information from a textfile.

I'm trying to build an update function which downloads a textfile from the
internet. First i used a buildingblock from fastnet to connect to a
ftp-server. The problem with this block is that if a download is failed
the program crashes cause of the ftp-connection (logging in etc).

Cause i can't fix this bug i want to write an update function works from
http instead of ftp.
The big problem is that i don't know how to do this. Finding out how the
ftp block worked was quite simple but i can't figure out how i can do the
same with http.

Is there anyone who can help me with this problem?
Thanks in advance.


I use C++ Socket Class for Windows
http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/win/misc/sockets.html

which I modified for HTTP downloads. If that doesn't work for you, google
for "HTTP Socket Class" and see what you get. Good luck.

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