• A5_AddTempFile Function
• a5_create_tempfile Function
• A5_DownLoadFile Function
• a5_file_get_access_control Function
• A5_FILE_REMOVE Function
• A5_FileAttributeHelp Function
• A5_FileAttributeHelper Function
• A5_Get_FilesUpdatedSince Function
• a5_getaddinsinstalledfolder Function
• a5_getcodelibraryfolder Function
• a5_gettransformhistory Function
• a5_getuserdatafolder Function
• a5_is_addin_aex_outdated Function
• a5_libraries_synchronize Function
• a5_load_aex_files Function
• a5_path_relative Function
• A5_PROMPT_FILES_IN_DB Function
• a5_promptforoverwrite Function
• a5_regexfilename Function
• a5_saveas_formats_help Function
• a5_savetransformhistory Function
• A5_SYNCHRONIZE_FOLDERS Function
• a5_zip_files_w_fback Function
• a5Helper_generateFileDownloadJS Function
• BOF Function
• COPY_FILES Function
• FILE_COPY Function
• FILE_GET_DATE_TIME Function
• FILE_GET_SIZE Function
• FILE_IS_OPEN Function
• FILES_IN_TABLE Function
• GET_FROM_FILE Function
• getfromapplicationdatafile Function
• SAVE_TO_FILE Function
• savetoapplicationdatafile Function
• touch Function
• UNZIP_FILES Function
• XPS_to_PDF Function
• ZIP_FILES Function
• zip_folder Function

A5_DownLoadFile Function

Syntax

Arguments

Result_Flag

.T. = the download was successful .F. = the download was not successful

source_file

The URL of a page to download.

target_file

The filename of the text file that will receive the downloaded page.

Description

Downloads a file specified by a URL and saves it on the user's machine.

Discussion

The A5_DownLoadFile() function downloads a file specified by a URL and saves it on the user's computer.

Example

? a5_downloadfile("www.google.com", "c:\google.txt")
= .T.

Limitations

Desktop applications only.