URLOpen

Syntax

URLOpen(connectionID, strURL, "r");

connectionID	A name you specify which will be used in all the following URL functions to identify which URL to access.
strURL	A string specifying the URL of the file.
"r"	Opens the connection in read mode.

Description

Opens a file at the specified URL for reading. The URL format must be one of the following:

http://[<username>:<password>@]<httpserver>[:<port>]/<path>

ftp://[<username>:<password>@]<ftpserver>[:<port>]/<path>

file://[[\\]<fileserver>]/<path>

Note:

The data within square brackets is optional.

You can also specify just a path, this will default to a file://<path> string.

Returns

A number indicating whether the file was successfully opened.

	The file was successfully opened.
	Error

Example

//Open myfile.txt for reading

$readok = URLopen("my_conn_ID", "ftp://myserver/myfile.txt", "r");