Thread: How to get the name of the html file?

If the filename isn't specified, the browser looks for index.html or index.htm.

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Hey guys, i know this is an old thread and all, but it relates the most to what i'm trying to do.

This refers to the thread: I need to open a web page from c++

The only question I have is how do you get the actual file name to download? In the example given where it uses "http://www.google.com/" for the source to copy, i'm trying to use it the same way, but the URLDownloadToFile doesn't work unless it is an actual file like "http://www.google.com/index.htm" or something like that.

You might want to state what exactly did you try and how does it not work.

If the filename isn't specified, the browser looks for index.html or index.htm.

I had the impression that it is the webserver that controls what page to serve as the index page, e.g., based on the DirectoryIndex configuration variable on Apache.

Code:

URLDownloadToFile(NULL, &listText, "listTemp.txt", 0, NULL);

when listText is "http://www.cppreference.com/stdstring/" it works
when listText is "http://www.cppreference.com/stdstring/index.html" it works
when listText is "http://www.cppreference.com/stdstring/strstr.html" it works
when listText is "http://www.google.com/" it does not work

What i mean by it does not work is that in my program, the URLDownloadToFile fails, and listTemp.txt is not created

I know about automatically looking for index.html or index.htm, but when index.html is not found, how do you find the name of the html file that is loaded when you type the url in the browser?

btw, even though the thread i replied to was in the c++ section, i'm actually using c.

Originally Posted by laserlight

I had the impression that it is the webserver that controls what page to serve as the index page, e.g., based on the DirectoryIndex configuration variable on Apache.

I'm not sure. Maybe you're right. Maybe we're both right.