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    copied!<p>I'm trying to fetch contents of an URL on a WM 6.5 not so uber gizmo, using VC++ 2008</p> <pre><code>CString http_request(CString params){ CInternetSession session(_T("My Session")); // add device identifier here? CHttpConnection* pServer = NULL; CHttpFile* pFile = NULL; CString szHeaders( _T("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;Accept: text/xml, text/plain, text/html, text/htm\r\nHost: www.mydomain.com\r\n\r\n")); CString strObject(""); CString out; DWORD dwRet; char *szBuff = new char[1023]; try { CString strServerName("www.mydomain.com"); INTERNET_PORT nPort(80); pServer = session.GetHttpConnection(strServerName, nPort); pFile = pServer-&gt;OpenRequest(CHttpConnection::HTTP_VERB_GET, strObject); pFile-&gt;AddRequestHeaders(szHeaders); pFile-&gt;SendRequest(LPCTSTR(params),params.GetLength()); pFile-&gt;QueryInfoStatusCode(dwRet); if (dwRet == HTTP_STATUS_OK) { UINT nRead = pFile-&gt;Read(szBuff, 1023); while (nRead &gt; 0) { //read file... out = CString(szBuff); } } delete pFile; delete pServer; } catch (CInternetException* pEx) { //catch errors from WinInet out = CString("Something went wrong."); } session.Close(); return out; } </code></pre> <p>I do see the request coming in but the URI does not get passed, the server throws a 500 or 404 because of this. </p> <p>I've tried passing params as "GET /blah.txt HTTP/1.0" and also "/blah.txt", no luck, would like to keep testing various input parameters but the device hangs for some reason... </p> <p>Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!</p> <p>TIA</p> <p><strong>Later edit: Solution:</strong></p> <p>Here's how I got it to work, full code snippet in case anyone wants a copy paste solution (yeah these come in handy)</p> <pre><code>CString http_request(CString server, CString uri){ CInternetSession session(_T("My Session")); // add device identifier here? IMEI ftw CHttpConnection* pServer = NULL; CHttpFile* pFile = NULL; CString szHeaders( _T("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded;Accept: text/xml, text/plain, text/html, text/htm\r\nHost: www.domain.com\r\n\r\n")); // maybe pass as param? CString strObject(uri); CString out; DWORD dwRet; CString params; char *szBuff = new char[1023]; try { CString strServerName(server); INTERNET_PORT nPort(80); pServer = session.GetHttpConnection(strServerName, nPort); pFile = pServer-&gt;OpenRequest(CHttpConnection::HTTP_VERB_GET, strObject); pFile-&gt;AddRequestHeaders(szHeaders); pFile-&gt;SendRequest(szHeaders, szHeaders.GetLength(),&amp;params, params.GetLength()); pFile-&gt;QueryInfoStatusCode(dwRet); if (dwRet == HTTP_STATUS_OK) { UINT nRead = pFile-&gt;Read(szBuff, 1023); //while (nRead &gt; 0) //{ //read, for more data you might want to uncomment the while and append to a var. I only needed a few bytes actually. out = CString(szBuff); //} } else { out = CString("Communication error!"); } delete pFile; delete pServer; } catch (CInternetException* pEx) { //catch errors from WinInet out = CString("Network error!"); // stupid a$$ cpp the code to handle this would be longer than my **** } session.Close(); pServer-&gt;Close(); return out; } </code></pre>
 

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