Winsock as iNet.getpage ????

[JFS]

Anyone have a snippit of code where they get winsock to behave as inet.getpage? I am just looking to download a web page and save it as a string.

Under Win2000, iNet.getpage seems to be flakey and my attepmt at learnign winsock is not coming a long too fast.

A specific example of using winsock to get the HTML source of a web page would be very helpful.


thanks

jfs

I'm not sure but I think it should be:

Private Sub GetHTML(ByVal sHost As String, ByVal sPage As String)
    'Stop any concurrent operations
    Winsock1.Close
    'Connect to the specified host. Eg. 200.56.144.9 or http://www.website.com
    Winsock1.Connect sHost, 80
    'Request the data of the page, Eg. Index.html, default.asp, files/about.htm, ...
    Winsock1.SendData "GET " & sPage
End Sub
Private Sub Winsock1_DataArrival(ByVal bytesTotal As Long)
    Winsock1.GetData sHTML, vbString, bytesTotal
    'sHTML conatins the HTML of the requested page.
End Sub

Correction:
I think you should move this line to the Connect event of the Winsock control:
Winsock1.SendData "GET " & sPage