posted February 05, 2002 08:45 AM            

An example is available here http://www.powerbasic.com/support/forums/Forum7/HTML/001135.html

To fetch an https page, just send the URL of the page through Wininet, e.g. https://secureserver/

If your page is password protected, just use a URL similar to the following:

https://username:password@secureserver/address/

Good luck,
- Jakob

posted February 07, 2002 01:44 AM            

(Note that for FTP servers, there are a whole different set of commands, but you can still use the mentioned code to fetch a direct file - e.g. ftp://ftp.mysite.com/address/filename.txt )

posted November 05, 2002 10:22 AM            

I tested your code - works fine! Unfortunately I cannot use the same approach in my task. The WININET function that you used in this sample InternetOpenUrl - always create "GET" header in the message sent to the server. I need to "POST" the message and I tried to accomplish it with the sequence of other WININET functions that should be equivalent to InternetOpenUrl:

InternetConnect
HttpOpenRequest
HttpSendRequest

However I encountered another problem. I have to have totally customized message headers. WININET says that customization is supposed to be accomplished with editing/removal of headers by HttpAddRequestHeaders. I used this function and it failed! Here are the headers I could not remove:
"User-Agent"
"Cache-Control"
"Host"
Also I need to have the following POST header: "POST /authorize HTTP/1.0" WININET says that you can do this with HttpOpenRequest modifying 2nd and 4th parameter. It also failed. Perhaps the server I need to communicate to is not strictly HTTP (1.0 or 1.1) compliant. But this does not help me since I have no control on the server side. Since you said that you communicated with HTTPS servers, might be you encountered similar problems in the past. May be you know how to turn off the GET header in InternetOpenUrl or some other workarounds to create customized message, with the other functions of WININET or other DLL libraries that come with Windows?

Joshua Zavelovich

posted November 06, 2002 02:33 AM            

That page contains a whole section on "Posting Data to the Server"..

But..

According to the documentation on InternetOpenUrl, you can send along headers with the InternetOpenUrl request:

quote:

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lpszHeaders
[in] Pointer to a null-terminated string that specifies the headers to be sent to the HTTP server. (For more information, see the description of the lpszHeaders parameter in the HttpSendRequest function.)
dwHeadersLength
[in] Size of the additional headers, in TCHARs. If this parameter is -1L and lpszHeaders is not NULL, lpszHeaders is assumed to be zero-terminated (ASCIIZ) and the length is calculated.

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Are you sure this is not enough for you? If it isn't, then you'll have to read up on the HTTP sessions as described above, but many webservers are "nice enough" to allow you send along post data with a get request...