Quote Originally Posted by leinad31
No way to read from the end of the file backwards, only forward even by selecting an arbitrary position in file.
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i am sorry, but that's just simply wrong.


mshttp will allow you to do so, or any other http provider for that manner, you dont need any server software installed, just a remotely decent server installation.

read up about the range header:

W3C HTTP specification : Range Headers


do a head request, notice the "Content-Length", and subtract, oh, say 1000000 from that to download the last meg.

once the sctring is in vb, Reverse() it if need be, and you should good to go!