>Are these DLLs part of VFP8 resources ? Or, are they part of Windows ?
ShellExec i of Windows, but to work with URL's you need
a browser installed. The other ways depend on IE, and I think
URLDownloadToFile was later added - but even before that
you could use the functions exported by WinINet (also
dependant in IE being installed) to write a 15-liner yourself.

There even was some How-to code in MSDN some years ago
written in vfp.

HTH

thomas