Is it possible for me to do the following: ifstream fin; fin.open("http://some_site.com/somefile.txt"); char buffer[2048]; fin.getline(buffer,2047); and have ~2 KB of the web page stored in "buffer"? If not, don''t give me an explanation of HOW to do it, please, I just want to know if it would work. Thank you. ================== My (soon-to-be) Cherished Cookie of Appreciation: -- MattB - for WinSock advice --

No, fstreams support only the local filesystem. Add to that the fact that getline would only return the first line...

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You can create your own C++ HTTPStream class, though doing so is far from trivial.

If you are using C# and .NET you can use the WebRequest and WebResponse classes to accomplish what you are looking for.