Winsock and the Internet

Is there a way to download a file off the internet using the winsock control? I can do it with the inet control but i dont really like that one alot because its hard to show the progress of the download.

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Add a winsock control to you form and a text box and use some code such as...

Winsock = SckSocket
Text = DownloadText
Text = FilenameText
Timer = DownloadTimer


'These go into Declarations on the form
Dim TotalBytes as Long
Dim TempBytes as Long
Dim DownloadSpeed as Integer

'Being main code
Private Sub Form_Load()
DownloadSpeed = 0
TempBytes = 0
TotalBytes = 0
DownloadText.Text = ""
DownloadTimer.Enabled = False
DownloadTimer.Interval = 1000
End Sub

Private Sub ConnectCmd_Click()
SckSocket.connect "www.webserver.com", 80
Me.Caption = "Connecting to host..."
End Sub

Private Sub SckSocket_Connect()
Me.Caption = "Connected to: " & SckSocket.RemoteHostIP
SckSocket.SendData "GET /" & FileNameTxt.Text & " HTTP/1.0" & vbcrlf & vbcrlf
DownloadTimer.Enabled = True
End Sub

Private Sub SckSocket_DataArrival(bytes as long)
TempBytes = bytes
TotalBytes = TotalBytes + Int(bytes)
Me.Caption = "Downloading: " & TotalBytes " bytes complete. Speed: " & DownloadSpeed
SckSocket.GetData TempStr, VbString
DownloadText.Text = DownloadText.Text & VbString
End Sub

Private Sub SckSocket_Close()
Me.Caption = "Download Complete! " & TotalBytes & " were downloaded."
End Sub

Private Sub DownloadTimer_Timer()
DownloadSpeed = Int(TempBytes / 1024)
End Sub

Make a form, add the above objects, run it
and put in the Text box for "FileNameText" something like..

/index.html

Note: That code was off the top of my head and has NOT been tested. Perhaps someone else can repost the code so that it supports Binary files and not just a html/text file.

yea it seems to work, but the data is not encoded, meaning it doesn't show the content, rather just the bits or bytes or some kinda crap in there, it works fine, but how would you go about transfering a whole file from internet to your harddrive?

How can i get the size of the file before downloading it? So i can use a progressbar