Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 01/09/47 11:59

Hello,

Anders Skelander wrote:

> This question is slightly off-topic, but anyway:
>
> I found this Visual Basic code chunk that reads all files/contents
> from a web page.
>
> http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=1252
>
> My question is: Will it always work with a straightforward
> loop like this, one that pulls all the information from the web
> server? Or does the client (normally a web browser application)
> sometimes have to interact with the server, respond to requests
> that go from the server to the client, during the download of all
> page contents?

I'm not into VB, but this one looks like it just downloads a single file. It
does not pull 'all files/contents from a web page', which would require
parsing the HTML and CSS code to look for embedded media (images..),
external stylesheets and javascript.

For downloading just a single file: yes, this is all that has to be done (in
any languages which provide the functions to abstract the not so trivial
HTTP handling away).


HTH

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Benjamin Niemann
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