Thread: Reading and Writing to a file

I have already asked this question before but I didn't really get anywhere. But now I have a new way of explaining what I want to do.

The code below reads a file off my computer and then prints the contents of a.name

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

struct data
{
    char name [50];
    
}a;

int main()
{
    FILE *f;
    f=fopen("file","rb");
    fread(&a, sizeof(struct data),1, f);
    printf("NAME: %s\n", a.name);
    fclose(f);

    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

That works fine. But if I want to read a file off the internet I put this

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

struct data
{
    char name [50];
    
}a;

int main()
{
    FILE *f;
    f=fopen("http://dg1234ukpics.tripod.com/cgi-bin/file.dat","rb");
    fread(&a, sizeof(struct data),1, f);
    printf("NAME: %s\n", a.name);
    fclose(f);

    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

and it does not work!

I believe I have to use sockets but is it somthing called winsock I have to learn becuase I'm using windows?

Please help
Thanks