[AccessD] Hyperlink screen scraping

There are at least 3 ways to do this WinHttp, Inet Api's and XMLHttp. 
These all may require an install or a specific version of IE. It depends 
on what type of document you want to download a jpeg, a word Doc, text 
file or html. It also depends on what OS you want to deploy on. I would 
probably put the download into an OLE field and only use text into a 
memo field.

Bruce Bruen wrote:

>Dear List,
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>I am sure we have covered this before (Seth?) but I cannot find anything
>in the archives (probably cant set a good keyword).
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>The database has a text field containing a hyperlink.  When the user
>clicks a command button on a form showing the address I want to download
>the hyperlink document and save the contents of the page in a memo field
>for later scraping and processing.
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>How is this done? Follow and FollowHyperlink just open IE.  Is there
>something I am missing (apart from that!)
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>Tia
>Bruce
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