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Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ?

From GS <gs@v.invalid>
Newsgroups microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
Subject Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ?
Date 2017-04-26 09:56 -0400
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>   So some years ago I wrote winsock code for Interet functions.
> But awhile back someone pointed me to WinHttpRequest.
> It turns out to be a clean, simple way to make server requests,
> without the sloppy IE tie-in. Some of the methods use strings
> rather than variants, but it seems to work fine with VBScript.
> (I've only used it in VB6, but I've seen VBS code.)

I've been looking into this and have come up short on examples for how to 
download files in place of using UrlDownloadToFile. Can you point me in the 
right direction? (I've hit a situation where my app keeps getting the older 
cache version of the file (Win10), not an updated version when my online form 
submits new data to it!)

-- 
Garry

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WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 14:14 +0200
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 09:06 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 16:44 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 18:50 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 11:39 +0200
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:22 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 17:27 +0200
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 13:49 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-20 17:56 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-20 13:24 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-21 01:05 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-20 21:42 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-21 10:11 +0200
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-21 09:23 +0200
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 09:57 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 17:20 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 14:27 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 22:15 +0200
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-18 18:30 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 11:09 +0200
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:23 -0400
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-19 09:59 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 17:41 +0200
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-18 11:58 -0400
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 09:56 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-26 16:35 +0200
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 10:44 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 11:07 -0400
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 16:29 -0400
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-26 21:26 -0400
          Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-26 23:28 -0400
            Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 01:11 -0400
              Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 09:28 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 15:22 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 19:16 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:08 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:11 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:17 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:21 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 22:37 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 00:01 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 01:19 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 01:46 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 12:36 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-29 19:59 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-29 20:18 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 23:50 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 19:29 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:04 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-04-28 22:25 -0400
                Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:31 -0400
  Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-18 19:20 +0200
    Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-18 19:58 +0200
      Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? Ulrich Möller <knobbi38@arcor.de> - 2017-04-19 14:59 +0200
        Re: WriteLine fails with error 5 (bad argument) on a string ? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-04-19 16:46 +0200

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