Opening a web page from C or C++

finnpark

Hi All,

I want to open a web page from witthin my c program. Anyone have any ideas how to do this. The C program will NOT be inside a web server.

Anyone know how to call/open a web page from inside a C program. ?

Thanks.

satchmo

If you're using Windows, ShellExecute will do that.
Eg:

ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "http://www.boards.ie", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

If you substitute a file like "c:\\temp\\textfile.txt" for the webpage address, it'll open that file with the program associated with its extension.

finnpark

Thanks for that Satchmo,

Yes I am using Windows. All I really want to do is to open a webpage using C. I will try this out.

Can I close the webpage a second later using C? Or do I have to use Javascript or something to do this.

Thanks Again.

satchmo

If it's exactly a second later you want to close it, javascript would be much easier.

MickFarr

Use the CreateProcess function to start

DWORD ExitCode;
STARTUPINFO si;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;


memset(&si, 0, sizeof(si));
memset(&pi, 0, sizeof(pi));
si.cb = sizeof(si);

// Create the process. 
if(!CreateProcess(NULL, "C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe www.boards.ie",NULL,NULL,FALSE,0,NULL,NULL,&si,&pi))
   AfxMessageBox("CreateProcess failed.");
	

Then use TerminateProcess at any time to kill the process

// Close process. 
GetExitCodeProcess(pi.hProcess, &ExitCode);
TerminateProcess(pi.hProcess, ExitCode);

That's the easiet way to do what you want.

Can you believe I can type drunk!

finnpark

Thanks All,

Many thanks for that. I will try it out. That is exactly what I am looking for.

Finn