Delphi: How to load a text file on the internet into a string?

Question

On my program I have a function that checks for the current version of the program, which it gets from the url: www.tablemaster.webs.com/versioninfo.txt

As you can see, at the URL is just plain text. I need to load this text from the URL into a string on my program, how will I go about doing this? I've searched around but found nothing..

PS: I need the simplest code possible..

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

I would use Indy's TIdHTTP with it's easiest GET overload this way:

uses
  IdHTTP;

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  S: string;
  IdHTTP: TIdHTTP;
begin
  IdHTTP := TIdHTTP.Create(nil);
  try
    S := IdHTTP.Get('http://www.tablemaster.webs.com/versioninfo.txt');
    ShowMessage(S);
  finally
    IdHTTP.Free;
  end;
end;

Answer 2

you can use TIEHTTP component from myfxboard.. to load txt file from url with TIEHTTP:

http.ExecuteURL('www.tablemaster.webs.com/versioninfo.txt');
Memo1.Lines.Add(http.sl.Text);