C++ equal of InetRead()

[Unc3nZureD]

I'm working on a DLL which should read a really simple string from a website.

The link looks like this: http://genericwebsite.cu.cc/script.php?license=123

The text it prints out is a simple true or false, no more.

How could I do this? I'm really newbie in C++ I'm using VC++ 2013 (express)

[Unc3nZureD]

Could anyone answer me please?

[funkey]

Maybe this helps: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa385103(v=vs.85).aspx

Search for examples.

[Unc3nZureD]

Oh, cool, that's what I need Thanks.

[funkey]

I'm glad I could help you. For all others interested in this I wrote the following function. Have fun!

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#include <Windows.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <Wininet.h>

#pragma comment(lib,"Wininet.lib")

BOOL InetRead(const TCHAR* sUrl, char* buffer, DWORD* dwBufLen,
                TCHAR* sProxy = NULL, TCHAR* sProxyUser = NULL, TCHAR* sProxyPwd = NULL);

BOOL InetRead(const TCHAR* sUrl, char* buffer, DWORD* dwBufLen, TCHAR* sProxy, TCHAR* sProxyUser, TCHAR* sProxyPwd)
{
    HINTERNET hOpen = NULL;
    HINTERNET hFile = NULL;
    DWORD dwBytesRead = 0, dwAllBytesRead = 0;
    DWORD dwCode, dwParamLen = 4;

    TCHAR* agent = _T("AutoC");
    hOpen = InternetOpen(agent, INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG, sProxy, NULL, 0);
    if (!hOpen)
        goto err1;

    hFile = InternetOpenUrl(hOpen, sUrl, NULL, NULL, INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD | INTERNET_FLAG_DONT_CACHE, NULL);
    if (!hFile)
        goto err2;

    HttpSendRequest(hFile, NULL, 0, NULL, 0);
    HttpQueryInfo(hFile, HTTP_QUERY_STATUS_CODE | HTTP_QUERY_FLAG_NUMBER, &dwCode, &dwParamLen, NULL);

    if (dwCode == HTTP_STATUS_PROXY_AUTH_REQ)
    {
        if ((sProxy != NULL) && (sProxyUser != NULL) && (sProxyPwd != NULL))
        {
            InternetSetOption(hFile, INTERNET_OPTION_PROXY_USERNAME, (LPVOID)sProxyUser, lstrlen(sProxyUser));
            InternetSetOption(hFile, INTERNET_OPTION_PROXY_PASSWORD, (LPVOID)sProxyPwd, lstrlen(sProxyPwd));
            HttpSendRequest(hFile, NULL, 0, NULL, 0);
            HttpQueryInfo(hFile, HTTP_QUERY_STATUS_CODE | HTTP_QUERY_FLAG_NUMBER, &dwCode, &dwParamLen, NULL);
        }
        else
            goto err3;
    }

    do {
        InternetReadFile(hFile, (LPVOID)(buffer + dwAllBytesRead), *dwBufLen - dwAllBytesRead - 1, &dwBytesRead);
        dwAllBytesRead += dwBytesRead;
    } while ((dwBytesRead) && (dwAllBytesRead < *dwBufLen));

    buffer[dwAllBytesRead] = 0; // because last call of InternetReadFile may add garbage!!
    goto OK;

err3:   InternetCloseHandle(hFile);
err2:   InternetCloseHandle(hOpen);
err1:   *dwBufLen = 0;
    return FALSE;

OK: InternetCloseHandle(hFile);
    InternetCloseHandle(hOpen);
    *dwBufLen = dwAllBytesRead;
    return TRUE;
}

int APIENTRY _tWinMain(HINSTANCE, HINSTANCE, LPTSTR, int)
{
    char sBuffer[20000];
    DWORD dwBuferLen = sizeof sBuffer;
    TCHAR *sUrl = _T("http://www.google.com/");

    if (!InetRead(sUrl, sBuffer, &dwBuferLen))//, _T("http://proxy.com"), _T("user"), _T("password")))
    {
        MessageBox(NULL, _T("InetRead failed!"), _T("Error"), MB_ICONERROR);
        return 1;
    }

#ifdef _UNICODE
    int len = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, sBuffer, -1, NULL, 0);
    wchar_t* sNew = (wchar_t*)malloc(len * (sizeof(wchar_t)));
    MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, sBuffer, -1, sNew, len);
    sNew[len - 1] = 0;

    MessageBox(NULL, sNew, sUrl, MB_OK);
    free(sNew);

#else

    MessageBox(NULL, sBuffer, sUrl, MB_OK);
#endif

    return 0;
}

Edit: Added proxy authentication

Edited April 10, 2014 by funkey

[funkey]

I tried the AutoIt function InetRead and I'm not sure if this is a bug. In AutoIt I have following code:

HTTpSetProxy(2, "192.168.100.201", "user", "password")
Global $bData = InetRead("http://www.google.com/")
Global $nBytesRead = @extended
If @error Then ConsoleWrite("Error InetRead " & @error & @LF)
Global $sData = BinaryToString($bData)

MsgBox(4096, "InetRead AutoIt", "Bytes read: " & $nBytesRead & " - " & StringLen($sData) & @CRLF & @CRLF & $sData)

This seems to work but I get code from proxy page not from Google. If I add correct port to the proxy address ("192.168.100:3128") then I get about 12000 bytes read but not text and error is set to 13. What does this mean?

When I do the same with my C-function I always get text from the Google page, no need to specify the proxy port.

char sBuffer[20000];
    DWORD dwBufferLen = sizeof sBuffer;
    TCHAR *sUrl = _T("http://www.google.com/");

    if (!InetRead(sUrl, sBuffer, &dwBuferLen, _T("192.168.100.201"), _T("user"), _T("password")))
    {
        MessageBox(NULL, _T("InetRead failed!"), _T("InetRead AutoC"), MB_ICONERROR);
        return 1;
    }

    TCHAR sBytes[64];
    _stprintf_s(sBytes, _T("Bytes read: %i"), dwBufferLen); // 11584 bytes now
    MessageBox(NULL, sBytes, _T("InetRead AutoC"), MB_ICONINFORMATION);

Maybe a dev can have a look into AutoIt's code.

Greetings

funkey