I would like to get the latest date from an image file on a web page that updates the images regularly. How would i get this date from visual basic. Also how would i download the image when i see its been updated on the website??
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you can use the Internet Transfer Control to download the image. This code taken direct from the MSDN Library:
Dim b() As Byte
Dim strURL As String
' Set the strURL to a valid address.
strURL = "FTP://ftp.GreatSite.com/C
b() = Inet1.OpenURL(strURL, icByteArray)
Open "C:\Temp\China.exe" For Binary Access _
Write As #1
Put #1, , b()
Close #1
To get the modified date for any file, use the Last-Modified header:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim b() As Byte
b = Inet1.OpenURL("http://www.
Debug.Print Inet1.GetHeader("Last-Modi
End Sub
Here is a sample that gets the header without the whole file :)
http://www.planetsourcecod
whichever method you chose, you would obviously run this code in some sort of timer event, unless the images are bounded by some database, in which case you can trap the events as i mentioned above.
btw, not sure what will come of this question since dware never accepted the answers to his previous two questions here (auto - graded)
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by: AzraSoundPosted on 2000-07-28 at 16:01:21ID: 3656793
from an actual image element in the page? if you had a webbrowser for example:
msgbox webbrowser.document.all("i
if this is a continuous ongoing check and the image file is databound then you can select a reference to the ms html object library
Dim WithEvents imgObj As HTMLIMGElement <-- (cant remember exact name)
Set imgObj = webbrowser1.document.all("
now you can access its events such as
onbeforeupdate and
onafterupdate