Hi Cyrus.

>The Question is with vfp8, what is the simplest way to access a URL ? (whether it is to launch the Internet Explorer and go to a website, or to simply download a file).

To add to Marcia's and Greg's replies, if you just want to download a file without viewing it, you can use the following:

declare long URLDownloadToFile in URLMON.DLL ;
  long, string, string, long, long
lcURL  = 'http://www.whatever.com/somefile.html'
lcFile = 'c:\somefolder\somefile.html'
lnResult = URLDownloadToFile(0, lcURL, lcFile, 0, 0)
if lnResult <> 0
  messagebox('Failed to download ' + lcURL)
endif lnResult <> 0

Doug