>Im Trying to develop an aplication with the Internet Transfer Protocol, I need to use HTML as protocol, not FPT as is common, i have found this example in Inet help file, but this procedures are implemented in Visual Basic.
>
>My trouble consist to find the way to declare a variable as Byte, if I change those procedures to work with text, it works but if i download a .dbf file it return to me an array and i don't find the way to save this array to my computer.
>
>I try with FOPEN(), FCLOSE() functions but it didn't work.
>
>
>Private Sub Form_DblClick()
> Inet1.AccessType = icUseDefault
> Dim b() As Byte
> Dim strURL As String
>
> ' Presuming this is still a valid URL.
> strURL = "http://ftp.microsoft.com/" & _
> "developr/drg/Win32/Autorun.zip"
>
> ' Retrieve the file as a byte array.
> b() = Inet1.OpenURL(strURL, icByteArray)
>
> Open "C:\Temp\Autorun.zip" For Binary Access _
> Write As #1
> Put #1, , b()
> Close #1
> MsgBox "Done"
>End Sub
>
>Thanks and Regards.

Couple of things:

First, your URL does not work. So, assuming a working URL, you can gte a binary file as a byte array like this:


strURL = "http://SomeDomain.com/somebinaryfile.dbf"

* Retrieve the file as a byte array.

laFileArray = THISFORM.Inet.OpenURL(strURL, 1)

lcFileString = ""
FOR i = 1 TO ALEN(laFileArray)
lcFileString = lcFileString + CHR(laFileArray[i])
ENDFOR

STRTOFILE(lcFileString, "c:\SomeBinaryFile.dbf")


The variable that the function returns when you pass in 1 as the second parameter is actually a VFP array. Its values are numeric, and all oyuhave to do is translate them into their characters with CHR().