Downloading files off a webpage from within VB

**Bartho** · May 22nd, 2001, 07:23 AM

ID like to find out how to download a file from a webpage to my PC using Winsoc. Any ideas?

**JoshT** · May 22nd, 2001, 11:59 AM

Assuming you already know the basics of Winsock, connect to a web server at port 80 and send the following string:

"GET /page.html HTTP/1.0" & vbcrlf & vbcrlf

The incoming data will be the page. You'll have to keep appending it to a string until the connection closes - the file can come in "chunks". Then strip out the HTTP headers (everything up to and including the first two vbcrlf's), and save it to disk.

**Bartho** · May 23rd, 2001, 01:15 AM

What does the folowing mean and what do I need to do o correct it.
This is what I receive when sending the string you suggested.

HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="FW-1. Reason: no user Server "
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 323

<TITLE>Error</TITLE>
<BODY>
<H1>Error 401</H1>

FW-1 at primaryfw1: Unauthorized to access the document. <LI>Authorization is needed for FW-1. <LI>The authentication required by FW-1 for the user is: unknown. <LI>Reason for failure of last attempt: no user
</BODY>

**JoshT** · May 23rd, 2001, 07:22 AM

It means you need to send a valid username and password to access the page.

**Bartho** · Jul 6th, 2001, 02:25 AM

How do I sent the user name and password?

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