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Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon.

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"R.Wieser" <address@not.available> wrote

| The question is, what can I/someone *do* with data thats still 
compressesed
| with (something like) gzip ?  Its rather useless in that form, don't you
| think ?
|

  The data is usually being collected by a browser.
If you write your own page fetcher you should
add gzip support. It's just part of the job of
downloading webpages. All of that is normally
hidden by the browser.

  I think winhttp is meant to be a clean, barebones,
flexible option. The easy API functions, like
URLDownloadtoFile, are just IE wrappers that can
affect cache and cookies. Likewise, IE automation
is sloppy and indirect. But winhttp is clean. It's just
a light wrapper for winsock, with conveniences.

  I said before that I don't use it but I actually forgot.
I don't use it in script, but I use it in software. I have
a program that calls Google map server to get maps,
satellite, streetview, etc. I used to do that from
scratch with winsock. The only real options were winsock
on one extreme or IE wrappers on the other. IE wrappers
are hokey. Winsock is a lot of work and can't hand;e
encryption. But since XP, wnhttp is pre-installed
on Windows and I discovered that it would allow me
almost full access to the transaction while still taking
care of things like encryption, server handshake, etc.

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Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 13:54 +0200
  Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 09:11 -0400
    Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 17:45 +0200
      Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 18:24 +0200
        Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 12:39 -0400
          Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 18:59 +0200
            Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 14:53 -0400
              Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-11 22:22 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-11 17:45 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 09:25 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-12 10:17 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 19:19 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-12 14:17 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-12 23:09 +0200
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 12:28 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 14:26 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2017-10-13 18:23 -0400
                Re: Cannot get VBS to retrieve a webpage using HTTPS .. spoke too soon. "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2017-10-14 09:54 +0200

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