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Hi everyone,

Can anyone explain these two items and what they do in easy to understand grammar?

Private Declare Function InternetOpen Lib "wininet.dll" Alias "InternetOpenA" (ByVal sAgent As String, ByVal lAccessType As Long, ByVal sProxyName As String, ByVal sProxyBypass As String, ByVal lFlags As Long) As Long

Private Declare Function InternetConnect Lib "wininet.dll" Alias "InternetConnectA" (ByVal hInternetSession As Long, ByVal sServerName As String, ByVal nServerPort As Integer, ByVal sUsername As String, ByVal sPassword As String, ByVal lService As Long, ByVal lFlags As Long, ByVal lContext As Long) As Long

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Lucas
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JRossi1,

Thanks for the help?!  I am maybe looking at the wrong thing.  If you cant answer me this I will still give you points.  I am looking at some VB6 code and trying to find where they called access to a coldfusion site behind a login.  Meaning this app is allowed past the permissions to access the database.  Do you know if it is the wininet.dll that allows this.
 Similar to this call
lngINetConn = InternetConnect (lngInet, "ftp.myserver.com", 0, "username", "password", 1, 0, 0)
I cant find anything similar, am I looking in the wrong place?

OR

Is xmlhttp allowed access to the site without permission?!  (ie App calls xmlhttp.open() to access information)

Thanks again!

Lucas
According to MSDN:

<<< The Windows Internet (wininet.dll) application programming interface (API) enables applications to interact with Gopher, FTP, and HTTP protocols to access Internet resources. >>>

Therefore, it seems this API doesn't have the capability to provide access to a database, only internet resources.

Also, xmlhttp.open()  is used to access both binary and simple HTML data from any web site. Again, doesn't allow access to a database.  
Was just reading that.  Thanks for your help.  When xmlhttp hits the http site, it requests and sometimes puts information into a coldfusion page.  But when I try and access that url & filename i get access denied.  somewhere in this code, it is passing these permission before xmlhttp request these pages OR is xmlhttp exempt these type of permissions?

Lucas