Help with Simple File Downloading

[medopunsher]

HI , i need help with a c++ code that downloads a single file from a DIRECT link and save it somewhere on the computer i am working under windows and i have searched google but i didnt find anything simple just tons of codes that i cant understand i dont need any progress of the download or anything just simple file download , Thanks in advanced

[Ancient Dragon]

I think what you want is an ftp library -- here are some links.

[kvprajapati]

medopunsher,
Windows HTTP service library - Read about WinHTTP Service.
WinHttpSendRequest Function

You may also use MFC class CHttpFile & CInternetFile classes

[Laiq Ahmed]

search for the WinINet. for Http.

[CoAstroGeek]

Check out libCurl: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/

[bornedbored]

Actually, for simple file downloads you will need only URLDownloadToFile API.

HRESULT URLDownloadToFile(
LPUNKNOWN pCaller,
LPCTSTR szURL,
LPCTSTR szFileName,
DWORD dwReserved,
LPBINDSTATUSCALLBACK lpfnCB
);

Check it here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms775123(VS.85).aspx

[medopunsher]

THANKS borned bored thats exactly what i was looking about

[medopunsher]

But please can you tell me how to use it is there any library to include
because i am new to api so i dont know how to use them in my application , Thanks in advanced

[Ancient Dragon]

Try this: both first and last parameters can be NULL.

URLDownloadToFile(NULL, "www.DaniWeb.com/something.jpg",
     "c:\\mydir\\something.jpg", NULL);

[marco93]

This code is not sufficient and won't work on some Windows SPx.....

[Ancient Dragon]

This code is not sufficient and won't work on some Windows SPx.....

This worked for me on Vista Home using VC++ 2008 Express. But yes, anyone wanting to use that function needs to know what they are doing, such as reading all about it on MSDN and possibly other places.

#include <windows.h>

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
URLDownloadToFile(NULL, _T("http://www.daniweb.com/certificates/posts46588.jpg"),
     _T("c:\\dvlp\\posts46588.jpg"), NULL, NULL);
	return 0;
}

[medopunsher]

This worked for me on Vista Home using VC++ 2008 Express. But yes, anyone wanting to use that function needs to know what they are doing, such as reading all about it on MSDN and possibly other places.

#include <windows.h>

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
URLDownloadToFile(NULL, _T("http://www.daniweb.com/certificates/posts46588.jpg"),
     _T("c:\\dvlp\\posts46588.jpg"), NULL, NULL);
	return 0;
}

It doesnt work for me i am working under windows 7 with Vc Express 2008 Which type of project did u create ?
Thnx for help

[Ancient Dragon]

windows 7 is still in beta, it will probably work ok when released this October. I just created a standard console project.