>>
>>Download the trial version of wwIPStuff from www.west-wind.com. It does this and much more, and by the time you work out all the details of writing this yourself, the $100 for the full version will seem well spent.
>
>I have downloaded it but I ultimately want to use it in VB not fox - I'm just using fox as the test harness as I know it a lot better than VB at the moment.
>
>My approach at the moment is:
>
>InternetOpen
>InternetConnect
>HttpOpenRequest
>HttpSendRequest
>HttpQueryInfo
>
>Is this going along the right path?

You don't need all that for a GET. Simply:

InternetOpen
InternetOpenURL
InternetReadFile
InternetCloseHandle(InternetHandle)
InternetCloseHandle(ResultsHandle)