>Hello,
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>I need to pull information from a website into FoxPro. The information is within a .txt file (comma delimited) on the website server.
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>Ideally, I'd just like to copy the .txt files on to my hard drive and manipulate them further in FoxPro. When I try to:
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>copy file "http://www.MYWEBSITE.com/_private/form_results10.txt" to c:\hold\form_results10.txt
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>I get the error "Invalid path or filename". I tried something else earlier (don't recall what it was) that led me to believe FoxPro was "stuck" within the C:\ drive (something like it couldn't find c:\http://...).
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>I also tried writing a macro in Excel to open the .txt file there and manipulate it. I'm not sure how to tweak that code to actually work.
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>If there is a way to just copy the files, that's perfect. If not, help converting the following macro to "FoxSpeak" would be greatly appreciated.

Automating Excel to get a file over HTTP is a bit of an overkill, but it can be done. I'd rather point you to Rick Strahl's website - get wwIpStuff, and look for HTTPGet(), to which you just pass the url and get the file in a string variable, which you then StrToFile() to wherever you want.