>>wwIPStuff will definitely be lighter weight. Yes, it works with secure sites, but can get tangly if you have to deploy in environments behind proxy servers and/or firewalls. Also, since you can use HTTPGetEx which is a modal call, you don't have to worry about polling for results.
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>Well I will have to be crossing a firewall and our clients do connect through a proxy, could you define "tangly" a bit as in problems to expect?


When doing a programmatic connection through a proxy, WinInet requires that you set a property that specifies it during a connection, so you need to know about the proxy ahead of time, or implement some sort of trial and error. I encountered one situation that I have yet to solve where the Proxy required a login before poking through, and I could not initiate it programmatically.

If the app is only being deployed in one place, this should not be a problem because oyu can solve it just once and be done with it. It was the extrememely heterogeneous network environments that caused a headache for me.