Note: I only want to use wininet, not urlmon-urldownloadtofile.
Well, I have the following code which works perfectly in XE2 to download a file:
procedure DownloadFile(URL: string; Path: string);
const
BLOCK_SIZE = 1024;
var
InetHandle: Pointer;
URLHandle: Pointer;
FileHandle: Cardinal;
BytesRead: Cardinal;
DownloadBuffer: Pointer;
Buffer: array [1 .. BLOCK_SIZE] of byte;
BytesWritten: Cardinal;
begin
InetHandle := InternetOpen(PWideChar(URL), 0, 0, 0, 0);
URLHandle := InternetOpenUrl(InetHandle, PWideChar(URL), 0, 0, 0, 0);
FileHandle := CreateFile(PWideChar(Path), GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_WRITE, 0,
CREATE_NEW, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0);
DownloadBuffer := @Buffer;
repeat
InternetReadFile(URLHandle, DownloadBuffer, BLOCK_SIZE, BytesRead);
if not WriteFile(FileHandle, DownloadBuffer, BytesRead, BytesWritten, 0) or
(BytesWritten <> BytesRead) then
RaiseLastOSError;
until BytesRead < BLOCK_SIZE;
CloseHandle(FileHandle);
InternetCloseHandle(URLHandle);
InternetCloseHandle(InetHandle);
end;
The above code's credits go to jachguate. He edited my code to correct it, and I thank him for that.
Now, this code only works correctly under Delphi XE2. I try to use it under Delphi 7 and it is not working correctly. It seems to store the same "line" or "byte sequence" to the file over and over a few times.
The following are the two reformations of the above code I have attemted to use in Delphi 7 - neither of which worked properly.
procedure DownloadFile(URL: string; Path: string);
const
BLOCK_SIZE = 1024;
var
InetHandle: Pointer;
URLHandle: Pointer;
FileHandle: Cardinal;
BytesRead: Cardinal;
DownloadBuffer: Pointer;
Buffer: array [1 .. BLOCK_SIZE] of byte;
BytesWritten: Cardinal;
begin
InetHandle := InternetOpen(PChar(URL), 0, 0, 0, 0);
URLHandle := InternetOpenUrl(InetHandle, PChar(URL), 0, 0, 0, 0);
FileHandle := CreateFile(PChar(Path), GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_WRITE, 0,
CREATE_NEW, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0);
DownloadBuffer := @Buffer;
repeat
InternetReadFile(URLHandle, DownloadBuffer, BLOCK_SIZE, BytesRead);
if not WriteFile(FileHandle, DownloadBuffer, BytesRead, BytesWritten, 0) or
(BytesWritten <> BytesRead) then
RaiseLastOSError;
until BytesRead < BLOCK_SIZE;
CloseHandle(FileHandle);
InternetCloseHandle(URLHandle);
InternetCloseHandle(InetHandle);
end;
procedure DownloadFile(URL: string; Path: string);
const
BLOCK_SIZE = 1024;
var
InetHandle: Pointer;
URLHandle: Pointer;
FileHandle: Cardinal;
BytesRead: Cardinal;
DownloadBuffer: Pointer;
Buffer: array [1 .. BLOCK_SIZE] of byte;
BytesWritten: Cardinal;
begin
InetHandle := InternetOpen(PAnsiChar(URL), 0, 0, 0, 0);
URLHandle := InternetOpenUrl(InetHandle, PAnsiChar(URL), 0, 0, 0, 0);
FileHandle := CreateFile(PAnsiChar(Path), GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_WRITE, 0,
CREATE_NEW, FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0);
DownloadBuffer := @Buffer;
repeat
InternetReadFile(URLHandle, DownloadBuffer, BLOCK_SIZE, BytesRead);
if not WriteFile(FileHandle, DownloadBuffer, BytesRead, BytesWritten, 0) or
(BytesWritten <> BytesRead) then
RaiseLastOSError;
until BytesRead < BLOCK_SIZE;
CloseHandle(FileHandle);
InternetCloseHandle(URLHandle);
InternetCloseHandle(InetHandle);
end;
Only thing edited was the data type conversions. Example one "PChar" was used, and example two "PAnsiChar" was used.