Hello,

Long story short: I'm creating a free online service for FOREX traders and need a very simple .dll...

The DLL itself is extremely simple:
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1. URL passed when calling DLL
2. DLL connects to url, retrieves the data from webserver, returns that data to program (preferably as a string). If the DLL encounters an error, it returns "ERROR" followed by some short message.

That's it.

The problem lies in the fact that this must be called from within the trading terminal (Metatrader 4). As far as I can tell, I can't make handles/etc.. I can only do simple function calls and play with any data returned. Therefore, I wasn't able to use wininet.dll or something along those lines that requires me to create a handle to InternetOpen() followed by more code. It must be just a single call that returns a string.

If anyone could point me to a resource to learn how to program this myself (I have very limited c/c++ experience) or if there is perhaps a free one already available somewhere, I'd be greatly appreciative!

-Jason