Execute PHP

What would be the best way to visit a list of URLs? It doesn't need to do anything but go to the site and increase a hitcounter. Would this be done with http requests or what? I've found a few things here and there but they all seem to be C++/MFC.

EDIT: Oops, this is C++. I though you wanted C# not C++/MFC, but I guess you want something on pure C++ :)
Try searching for appropriate libraries. Search like "http request C++" or "http C++". I know they are some good libraries that I had used in the past, but don't remember any right now.

(Eh, will leave my original answer as well...)
Here is code I use:

Code:

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HttpWebResponse res = null;
                StreamReader stream = null;
                string html = String.Empty;
                try
                {
                    HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(nextLink);
                    req.Method = "GET";
                    req.ContentLength = 0;
                    res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
                    stream = new StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.ASCII);
                    html = stream.ReadToEnd();
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
                }
                finally
                {
                    if (stream != null)
                        stream.Close();
                    if (res != null)
                        res.Close();                   
                }

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which should work if by "hitcounter" you mean a counter that goes up everytime you visit a page.

This is on System.Net

Note that you don't need the stream = ... part since you don't care about reading anything. You need the response part though.

I also want to state that you should always think about the moral behind doing things like this. Dunno exactly what the deal is, but had to give my thoughts.

> It doesn't need to do anything but go to the site and increase a hitcounter.
Some people would call this click-fraud.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Salem

> It doesn't need to do anything but go to the site and increase a hitcounter.
Some people would call this click-fraud.

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I won't be doing that (although I wouldn't consider that click-fraud at all). Like the title says, I'm looking to execute the PHP on a page (website needs to visited to do that) but I wanted to explain how it didn't need to actually do anything with the page, so I used that example.