Internet and VB6

[tg2003]

Hello all,

I'm planning two features in the application that I make:

1. When my application is opened, I would like to check (automatically) if its version is updated. This checking will communicate with my web server, get an answer and so forth.

2. Similarly, I would like to check automatically the license validation by communicating with my server.

What is best considered to this scenario? What controls should I use? Is winsock is good or may there are better ways to do it?

Thanks in advance!

 

[strongm]

Winsock should be fine

 

[HughLerwill]

thread222-1337638 may be of interest to you.

 

[dilettante]

Rather than spending time trying to get HTTP working reliably via a Winsock control you might consider the INet control, the XMLHTTPRequest or ServerXMLHTTPRequest objects, or VB's built in AsyncRead method.

For simple HTTP GET requests I tend to choose AsyncRead these days. It can return the response to you as either a byte array or a temporary file.

 

[strongm]

Shhh!!! You'll get Ted all excited ....

 

[dilettante]

Oops!

Glad I didn't say anything about the HTTP support built into ADO objects.