[Dev-C++] re: Know any docs on <wininet.h> ?

>Message: 3
>From: "* William" <wi...@fu...>
>Subject: re: [Dev-C++] Know any docs on <wininet.h> ?
>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 01:07:12 +1100
>
>Thanks to Reid.
>
>Now I have a real 'question' ... or can it be a challenge to implementors.
>
>The most recent Dev CPP help for C (which appears to be GNU GCC
>documentaion) shows good examples for inet.
>
>Cygwin and mingw don't appear to implement this functionality (so far...
>still looking).
>
>The 'challenge' is to inentify the library (.a file) that each header (.h
>file) belongs too and what is and not-quite implemented.
>
>My progress so far is that mingw and cygwin don't appear to have "inet"
>functionality except for the mingw winiwn.h interface.  Still investigating.
>
>As my target it Windows, I think a networking module might correctly be
>platform dependant and would like to find the documents for the "wininet.h"
>interface.

wininet.h is the header for a microsoft DLL )I forget  which one, probably 
wininet.dll :-)
which supplies "high level" networking facilities.

The Docs are here, on your friendly neighbourhood msdn site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wininet/wininet/about_wininet.asp

I'm pretty new to dev-cpp/mingw, but scanning the dev-cpp include dir turns 
up a copy
of the wininet.h header and the libs folder has a libwininet.a, so I assume 
you should be able to use it.
I haven't tried of course, but I don't like the wininet library anyway.

For "low level" stuff, you need to use winsock, the windows implementation 
of Berkely sockets,
which isn't much different. (On cygwin you should be able to use the native 
*nix api )

Regards.
Andy