Using WinINet API to POST a file to a Web Server
Creating a Windows WinINet HTTP GET function
Integrating in HTTP requests to a web server is almost standard for modern applications. Using a simple HTTP GET request can inform the user that a newer version of the application is available for download. Although there are many ways of writing your code to do this on Windows, Microsoft created the Windows Internet API (WinINet) library for this purpose.
The HTTP protocol fueled the Internet growth with almost everyone using the standard browser. Integrating JavaScript into a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) web page has brought almost a portable platform for developing applications. Asynchrounous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) allows the Dynamic HTML JavaScript (DHTML) web application to use the HTTP protocol in the background to update the current web page.
During the development of a thin agent that works as a Windows Service, I created this simple function that demonstrates how to do it. Read more