Thank you, Rick. I will try the WW Client Tools. Hopefully it also has a method to close the tab that was just opened.
>Dmitry,
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>You already own
West Wind Client and Internet Tools so the following is simple:
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>
>loHttp = CREATEOBJECT("wwHttp")
>lcOutput = loHttp.Get("https://somesite.com/somePage.data")
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>If all you're doing is literally sending a request with no response there are also simple Win API calls that can fire a URL or using `MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP`.
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>More complete tools like Client Tools or Chilcat are more useful for more intricate HTTP interactions, but if you're already using those tools then the simpler functions make things easy.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Hi,
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>>How would you write a code to call a URL from the VFP application? As if a user clicked on this URL. Specifically, I want to create a small PRG to call a URL every 1 or 2 minutes? Basically a FOR loop and then call this URL?
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>>How would you do it?
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>>TIA
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