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Hey guys , I have been asked by my boss to write some c++ code to read from a web page, this is alien to me as I have an electronics background and know nothing about networking.

I managed to find a c++ library called urlmon which has a method called downloadtofile() however that wasn't good enough for him as he actually wants to read from a page without downloading it. I am aware that socket programming is a particularly complex area and have searched the web without luck to try and find an easy way to do this. I have downloaded libraries like libcurl but cannot seem to get them to compile. Can anyone teach me an easy way to do this? (for windows please not linux)

thanks

Will

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use libcurl. I have not used itmyself so I can't help you with that, but there are a lot of other members who can.

Also get boost libraries -- specifically this one

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