See an article I wrote in UTMag in March 2004 (http://www.utmag.com/wconnect/wc.dll?LevelExtreme~9,7,10,,605) that retrieves images from the Web.

>Hi everybody!
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>Yeah, I'm alive. Just been really busy lately. That's why I haven't been around much. :)
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>I have a question here. In VFP, I used to get files through http using some code like this:
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>loHttp = CREATEOBJECT("msxml2.xmlhttp.4.0")
>loHttp.open("GET", "http:\\SomeServer\SomeFile.zip")
>loHttp.send()
>STRTOFILE(loHttp.responseBody, "c:\SomeFile.zip")
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>How can I accomplish that kind of thing in .NET?
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>Another thing that I also have to do is to programmatically authenticate on the server. When I manually navigate to the file, I must provide username/password. How do I do that programmatically?
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>TIA