Difference between revisions of "Internet Transfer Control in VB6"

Revision as of 12:00, 6 February 2008

Using the OpenURL Method to Retrieve an HTML Page

Uses the internet transfer control with HTTP to create an HTML page.

 Dim objInet as Inet
 
 Private Sub Form_Load()
    ' Set a reference to the internet transfer control.
    Set objInet = Me!axInetTran.Object
 End Sub
 
 Private Sub cmdWriteFile_Click()
    Dim b() as Byte
 
    ' Set the internet transfer control protocol and URL.
    objInet.Protocol = icHTTP
    objInet.URL = "HTTP://www.microsoft.com"
 
    ' Retrieve the HTML data into a byte array.
    b() = objInet.OpenURL(objInet.URL,icByteArray)
 
    ' Create a local file from the retrieved data.
    Open "C:\Homepage.htm" For Binary Access Write As #1
    Put #1, , b()
    Close #1
 
    MsgBox "Done"
 End Sub
 
 Private Sub cmdGetHeader_Click()
    ' Set the internet transfer control protocol and URL.
    objInet.Protocol = icHTTP
    objInet.URL = "HTTP://www.microsoft.com"
 
    ' Open the HTML and display the header information.
    objInet.openURL objInet.URL, icByteArray
    MsgBox objInet.GetHeader
 End Sub

FTP Files Using the Internet Transfer Control

You can easily FTP files between a client and host computer.