Microsoft's WinInet Documentation

 Complete documentation for the Microsoft Win32 Internet Functions can be found, in both HTML and zipped Word format, at this address:

http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/sdk/docs/wininet/

Functions Table

This table reports the correspondence between the functions offered by WININET.DLL and their implementation in the Win32::Internet extension. Functions showing a "---" are not currently implemented. Functions enclosed in parens ( ) aren't implemented straightforwardly, but in a higher-level routine, eg. together with other functions.

WININET.DLL Win32::Internet
InternetOpen new Win32::Internet
InternetConnect FTP / HTTP
InternetCloseHandle Close
InternetQueryOption QueryOption
InternetSetOption SetOption
InternetSetOptionEx ---
InternetSetStatusCallback SetStatusCallback
InternetStatusCallback GetStatusCallback
InternetConfirmZoneCrossing ---
InternetTimeFromSystemTime TimeConvert
InternetTimeToSystemTime TimeConvert
InternetAttemptConnect ---
InternetReadFile ReadFile
InternetSetFilePointer ---
InternetFindNextFile (List)
InternetQueryDataAvailable QueryDataAvailable
InternetGetLastResponseInfo GetResponse
InternetWriteFile ---
InternetCrackUrl CrackURL
InternetCreateUrl CreateURL
InternetCanonicalizeUrl CanonicalizeURL
InternetCombineUrl CombineURL
InternetOpenUrl OpenURL
FtpFindFirstFile (List)
FtpGetFile Get
FtpPutFile Put
FtpDeleteFile Delete
FtpRenameFile Rename
FtpOpenFile ---
FtpCreateDirectory Mkdir
FtpRemoveDirectory Rmdir
FtpSetCurrentDirectory Cd
FtpGetCurrentDirectory Pwd
HttpOpenRequest OpenRequest
HttpAddRequestHeaders AddHeader
HttpSendRequest SendRequest
HttpQueryInfo QueryInfo
InternetErrorDlg ---

Actually, I don't plan to add support for Gopher, Cookie and Cache functions. I will if there will be consistent requests to do so.

There are a number of higher-level functions in the Win32::Internet that simplify some usual procedures, calling more that one WININET API function. This table reports those functions and the relative WININET functions they use.

Win32::Internet WININET.DLL
FetchURL InternetOpenUrl
InternetQueryDataAvailable
InternetReadFile
InternetCloseHandle
ReadEntireFile InternetQueryDataAvailable
InternetReadFile
Request HttpOpenRequest
HttpSendRequest
HttpQueryInfo
InternetQueryDataAvailable
InternetReadFile
InternetCloseHandle
List FtpFindFirstFile
InternetFindNextFile

Constants

Those are the constants exported by the package in the main namespace (eg. you can use them in your scripts); for their meaning and proper use, refer to the Microsoft Win32 Internet Functions document. 

    HTTP_ADDREQ_FLAG_ADD
    HTTP_ADDREQ_FLAG_REPLACE
    HTTP_QUERY_ALLOW
    HTTP_QUERY_CONTENT_DESCRIPTION
    HTTP_QUERY_CONTENT_ID
    HTTP_QUERY_CONTENT_LENGTH
    HTTP_QUERY_CONTENT_TRANSFER_ENCODING
    HTTP_QUERY_CONTENT_TYPE
    HTTP_QUERY_COST
    HTTP_QUERY_CUSTOM
    HTTP_QUERY_DATE
    HTTP_QUERY_DERIVED_FROM
    HTTP_QUERY_EXPIRES
    HTTP_QUERY_FLAG_REQUEST_HEADERS
    HTTP_QUERY_FLAG_SYSTEMTIME
    HTTP_QUERY_LANGUAGE
    HTTP_QUERY_LAST_MODIFIED
    HTTP_QUERY_MESSAGE_ID
    HTTP_QUERY_MIME_VERSION
    HTTP_QUERY_PRAGMA
    HTTP_QUERY_PUBLIC
    HTTP_QUERY_RAW_HEADERS
    HTTP_QUERY_RAW_HEADERS_CRLF
    HTTP_QUERY_REQUEST_METHOD
    HTTP_QUERY_SERVER
    HTTP_QUERY_STATUS_CODE
    HTTP_QUERY_STATUS_TEXT
    HTTP_QUERY_URI
    HTTP_QUERY_USER_AGENT
    HTTP_QUERY_VERSION
    HTTP_QUERY_WWW_LINK
    ICU_BROWSER_MODE
    ICU_DECODE
    ICU_ENCODE_SPACES_ONLY
    ICU_ESCAPE
    ICU_NO_ENCODE
    ICU_NO_META
    ICU_USERNAME
    INTERNET_CONNECT_FLAG_PASSIVE
    INTERNET_FLAG_ASYNC
    INTERNET_FLAG_HYPERLINK
    INTERNET_FLAG_KEEP_CONNECTION
    INTERNET_FLAG_MAKE_PERSISTENT
    INTERNET_FLAG_NO_AUTH
    INTERNET_FLAG_NO_AUTO_REDIRECT
    INTERNET_FLAG_NO_CACHE_WRITE
    INTERNET_FLAG_NO_COOKIES
    INTERNET_FLAG_READ_PREFETCH
    INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD
    INTERNET_FLAG_RESYNCHRONIZE
    INTERNET_FLAG_TRANSFER_ASCII
    INTERNET_FLAG_TRANSFER_BINARY
    INTERNET_INVALID_PORT_NUMBER
    INTERNET_INVALID_STATUS_CALLBACK
    INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT
    INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PROXY
    INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PROXY_PRECONFIG
    INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_BACKOFF
    INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_RETRIES
    INTERNET_OPTION_CONNECT_TIMEOUT
    INTERNET_OPTION_CONTROL_SEND_TIMEOUT
    INTERNET_OPTION_CONTROL_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT
    INTERNET_OPTION_DATA_SEND_TIMEOUT
    INTERNET_OPTION_DATA_RECEIVE_TIMEOUT
    INTERNET_OPTION_HANDLE_TYPE
    INTERNET_OPTION_LISTEN_TIMEOUT
    INTERNET_OPTION_PASSWORD
    INTERNET_OPTION_READ_BUFFER_SIZE
    INTERNET_OPTION_USER_AGENT
    INTERNET_OPTION_USERNAME
    INTERNET_OPTION_VERSION
    INTERNET_OPTION_WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE
    INTERNET_SERVICE_FTP
    INTERNET_SERVICE_GOPHER
    INTERNET_SERVICE_HTTP
    INTERNET_STATUS_CLOSING_CONNECTION
    INTERNET_STATUS_CONNECTED_TO_SERVER    
    INTERNET_STATUS_CONNECTING_TO_SERVER
    INTERNET_STATUS_CONNECTION_CLOSED
    INTERNET_STATUS_HANDLE_CLOSING
    INTERNET_STATUS_HANDLE_CREATED
    INTERNET_STATUS_NAME_RESOLVED
    INTERNET_STATUS_RECEIVING_RESPONSE
    INTERNET_STATUS_REDIRECT    
    INTERNET_STATUS_REQUEST_COMPLETE    
    INTERNET_STATUS_REQUEST_SENT    
    INTERNET_STATUS_RESOLVING_NAME    
    INTERNET_STATUS_RESPONSE_RECEIVED
    INTERNET_STATUS_SENDING_REQUEST

10 Jan 1997, Aldo Calpini <dada@perl.it>