Darren DICK
d.dick at uws.edu.au
Sun Dec 19 20:42:26 CST 2004
Thanks to all who responded I will keep away from the WinHTTP object Some of my clients are still using Win 98 (And it's not even Second Edition<sigh>) Here is the scenario All I have is a text file that has a version number of that particular app. I want my apps to look for this text file - read the contents and see it says 6.00 Now, if the current version of the app that is looking at this text file happens to be version 5.95 - a download of a new version should occur. I just wanted to put this text file in a public place eg a web site I actually don't wanna download the text file - just read from it Simple right?? Anyway back to the drawing board Again many thanks to those who responded I will be using the download code from Gustav - it looks cool Thanks Gustav See y'all Darren -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly Sent: Sunday, 19 December 2004 3:41 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] A2003:Connect to a text file at a web address Sob. But Microsoft initially said it was redistributable. But then I didn't look for awhile, I have WinXP SP1 installed and the two versions WinHttp 5.0 and 5.1 coexist side by side WinXP SP2 has another version. For all the gory details http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winhttp/htt p/what_s_new_in_winhttp_5_1.asp Stuart McLachlan wrote: >On 17 Dec 2004 at 9:25, MartyConnelly wrote: > > > >>You can also use this on Win2000 and higher This works for me using >>WinHttp when the site uses basic authentication: >>There are some other winhttp methods you can use to get around server >>proxies etc. >> >> Dim objWinHttp as object >> Dim strURL as string >> Dim strHTML as string 'your returned file >> >> >> strURL = "http://somesite.com" >> Set objWinHttp = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5") >> >> >> > >You have to be a bit careful here and it's not redistributable because >there are different versiosn of WinHttp out there. Any of the following >may be required on W2K/XP systems ...Request.5 ...Request.5.1 or >Request.5.1.1 you need to look at the exact version number when you create the reference. > > > > -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com