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[Sinipull]

I need to program my computer to do a single http request every time it starts Windows XP, something like that:

http://www.domain/in...id=1&data=12513

What would be easiest way to do it? I could write a C program and add it to the startup section, but i kinda hope that there's a more simple and "hidden" way to achieve it. The line is always constant and doesn't change, that should make it pretty easy..

[sourlemon]

Hm...I'm not I understand what you mean. You want a program that automatically start without you having to add it to start up? Or are you asking if there's a simpler way to write HTTP request?

If it's the first question, I don't know. But it's the second question, I would suggestion Java.
Reading from and Writing to a URLConnection (The Java™ Tutorials > Custom Networking > Working with URLs)

[Sinipull]

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You want a program that automatically start without you having to add it to start up?

No, i don't want a program at all if that's possible. Just a little html request to a server.

I know how to write it in Java, but i don't want to use Java in this case, i would like to implement it as simple as possible.
Is it possible to send html request to a server without opening browser as a result?

[WingedPanther]

I think the real question in my mind is: to what purpose?

[Sinipull]

The server is collecting information about computer's IP address.

[MeTh0Dz]

So you want to make a HTTP request without software. That makes no sense.

[Sinipull]

I was hoping XP could handle that with some previously built function.

[John]

I believe you will find all the necessary functions in winsock.h

[Sinipull]

Wow, i never imagined it will be such a headache to find any information about C from google.
Several hours of searching, nothing useful, found some code, but it didn't work on my dev-c++.
Any examples of using winsock? Searched the tutorial section, didn't see anything useful about sockets in there.

Edit: never mind, i decided to use Java after all, Took 3 lines of code.

Edited by Sinipull, 13 April 2010 - 06:08 AM.

[mrhbrandi]

Hi,

Please provide me the JAVA code to test the same.

[Sinipull]

URL url = new URL("http://www.domain.com/etc");
InputStream is = url.openStream();
is.close();