Thread: My program can't read an internet file!

This script can read Settings.txt fine. (

Code:

 
char Buffer[10];
DWORD dwBytes;
HANDLE hExtra;
hExtra=CreateFile("File.txt", GENERIC_READ, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, NULL);
ReadFile(hExtra, BufferT, 100, &dwBytes, NULL);

But when I try to make it read a file that is over the internet, if doesn't find the file, as if though it doesn't exist. Why is is doing this, and how can I get it to read a file that is on the net?

Thanks, August.

CreateFile does not open URLs. To download a file from the web, you can use the wininet API. Wininet sample here.

Okay, I looked at your examples it has one example for DOS and Windows. But the Windows example does not have a int_main function. So I don't know how to use it.

Plus these examples download the file, I want it to just read the file, that's all.

Those are both windows examples, allthough anonytmouse's example contains code to display output to a console. An example dosen't have to be a complete program just to show you how to do something.
You have to download files located on the internet (at least to memory). If you wanted you could create a function to check weather a file path is local or on the internet and then call the apropriate function that way you could call the same function to read local and remote files.