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Winsock: retrieving Web pages using sockets (HTTP, port 80)

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Created: 2003-02-05 18:59:34
Modified: 2011-12-10 09:20:22
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Listed functions:

closesocket
gethostbyname
htons
inet_addr
inet_ntoa
recv
send
socket
UrlGetPart
WSACleanup
WSAStartup

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As well you can store received data in a temporary file and load this file to a browser.

Same functionality can be achieved using Wininet functions -- InternetOpenUrl, HttpOpenRequest -- or using the URLDownloadToFile function from URL Monikers.

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