Check out the "Internet Control Pack" on Microsoft's site.
They are a free set of ActiveX controls including HTTP, FTP,
SMTP, and HTML controls.
I think this is the URL (?). Search the site if not:
198.105.232.6/ie/appdev/controls
Really simple, just drop on a Delphi, VB or other compatible
form. You don't even need to know sockets - just send and
request document objects.
By the way, these controls are originally from NetManage. If
you download the version from their site you will get a much
better help document than Microsoft provides.
Note that these controls need a small modification to run
in Delphi 2.0 - check Borland's site for the fix.
chris cobb
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From: Terry Smith[SMTP:tsmith@tsmith.com]
Sent: Monday, May 06, 1996 6:48 AM
To: robots@webcrawler.com
Subject: Re: VB. page grabber...
At 12:54 PM 5/6/96 +-200 <astroboy@nit.be> wrote:
>
>PS: Could I have references of that VB. freeware you are talking about ?
Sound like something I'd like to get my hand on...
>Attachment Converted: c:\pceud\attach\VB. page grabber...
>
I picked this up at Carl & Gary's VB page which is now maintained on Apex
Software (True Grid, DB Grid) home page www.apexsc.com. In short, it is
only a telnet control with enough code to generate a simple get.
The root reference for Carl & Gary's is http://www.apexsc.com/vb/index.html
[highly recommended]
The link for the ZIP file of vb browser is
ftp://ftp.apexsc.com/pub/cgvb/misc/vbrowser.zip
The description is
VBROWSER.ZIP 57K (11-13-95)
VBrowser is a VB Web browser with source code and a Winsock VB
programming explanation. No HTML parsing is done, but the complete Winsock
HTML document retrieval is implemented. It's shareware. Just unzip and
open the VB project. An EXE is also provided for load and run.
If any of you know of more sophisticated stuff out there, drop me a line.
I'm keeping track of this for a client.
Terry Smith
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