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Opening a webpage in C++

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  • 21-07-2006 12:15pm
    #1
    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks,
    I've been away from C++ for some time now, and I'm just trying to write a test script to QA and Client/Server app - so I just need to know one thing to get me going.
    I'm looking to open a webpage at, say:
    http://ipaddress/appdirection/<clientapp>?query=dictionary&word=test

    The client app will then return "true" or "false" according to whether the word "test" is in the dictionary.

    Any clues on how to simply open the webpage in the first place?
    I'll worry about reading the return statement when I get this first bit done.

    Cheers,
    S.


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    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Upon further inspection, looks like I'm going to have to use ShellExecute, but I'm getting a 'ShellExecute' undeclared error. Any ideas?


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    nobodythere
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    Last time I did programming around the web all of the API's were in msinet.dll but I think that's outdated

    Do you have the windows SDK? Look in the section
    Networking -> Network Protocols -> Windows HTTP Services

    The API is documented pretty well there. Sorry I can't be of any more help


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    Oriel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    Cheers, got it sorted in the end :)


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