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    Question Command line argument for website

    What command line argument must I use in my C program, to open a site, say "http://www.google.co.in/" in Internet Explorer?

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    Hmm...you will need to know socket programming and include any necessary libraries that will aid in parsing HTTP content. If you are looking to make a system call, not wise, have you reviewed how curl or wget is used?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cerebrassassin View Post
    in Internet Explorer?
    Use system. If you're not familiar with using command-line arguments do a search for argc and argv.

    Code:
    #include <stdlib.h>
    
    ...
    
    system("C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe \"http://www.yahoo.com\"");
    Something like that.

    system - C++ Reference
    Last edited by Epy; 11-25-2009 at 10:01 AM. Reason: forgot double slashes, fail

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