IDLnetURL

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IDLnetURL

Superclasses | Creation | Properties | Methods | Examples | Version History

An IDLnetURL object allows IDL to act as a client to an HTTP or FTP server. The object handles:

Opening a connection to a remote HTTP or FTP server.

Creating and sending HTTP requests to the remote HTTP or FTP server.

Receiving responses from the remote HTTP or FTP server.

Receiving and writing large data files to disk at a user-specified location.

For additional information, see the following sections:

Overview of the IDLnetURL Object

Using Callbacks with the IDLnetURL Object

Superclasses

None.

Creation

See IDLnetURL::Init.

Properties

Objects of this class have the following properties. See IDLnetURL Properties for details on individual properties.


AUTHENTICATION	CALLBACK_DATA
CALLBACK_FUNCTION	CONNECT_TIMEOUT
CONTENT_TYPE	ENCODE
FTP_CONNECTION_MODE	HEADERS
PROXY_AUTHENTICATION	PROXY_HOSTNAME
PROXY_PASSWORD	PROXY_PORT
PROXY_USERNAME	RESPONSE_CODE
RESPONSE_FILENAME	RESPONSE_HEADER
SSL_CERTIFICATE_FILE	SSL_VERIFY_HOST
SSL_VERIFY_PEER	SSL_VERSION
TIMEOUT	URL_HOSTNAME
URL_PASSWORD	URL_PATH
URL_PORT	URL_QUERY
URL_SCHEME	URL_USERNAME
VERBOSE

Methods

This class has the following methods:

IDLnetURL::Cleanup

IDLnetURL::CloseConnections

IDLnetURL::FtpCommand

IDLnetURL::GetFtpDirList

IDLnetURL::GetProperty

IDLnetURL::Init

IDLnetURL::SetProperty

Examples

See the following methods for examples:

IDLnetURL::FtpCommand

IDLnetURL::GetFtpDirList

Version History


6.4	Introduced

IDL Online Help (March 06, 2007)