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I must be doing something really stupid... This code fragment shows how I access two web pages on two different sites:
const char* const pszContents = http.quickGetStr (pszWebPage);
TRACE ("%s",pszContents) ;
If pszWebPage is "http://www.ransen.com/default.htm" then quickGetStr returns the contents correctly.
If pszWebPage is "http://www.dxftosvg.com/default.html" then quickGetStr returns a 404 page from the HostGator hoster.
Both pages work as they should in a browser. The first URL is on a Windows based server. The second is on a HostGator server, which is unix (I think) and is case sensitive, but apart from that I cannot see why the second call should not work.
Hello Owen,
Could it be that http://www.dxftosvg.com/default.html is some kind of .htaccess redirect? Does lastErrorText say something interesting?
Gert
Here is what the LastErrorText tells me:
ChilkatLog:
QuickGetStr:
DllDate: Aug 24 2012
UnlockPrefix: etc etc
Username: etc etc
Architecture: Little Endian; 32-bit
Language: Visual C++ 10.0
VerboseLogging: 0
VerboseLogging: 0
QuickReq:
url: http://www.dxftosvg.com/default.html
QuickGetToOutput_OnExisting:
qGet_1:
simpleHttpRequest_3:
httpMethod: GET
requestUrl: http://www.dxftosvg.com/default.html
Connecting to web server...
httpServer: www.dxftosvg.com
port: 80
ConnectTimeoutMs_1: 10000
calling ConnectSocket2
IPV6 enabled connect with NO heartbeat.
connectingTo: www.dxftosvg.com
dnsCacheLookup: www.dxftosvg.com
Resolving domain name (IPV4)
GetHostByNameHB_ipv4: Elapsed time: 374 millisec
myIP_1: 192.168.1.101
myPort_1: 49673
connect successful
Someone how knows more than me has dug deeper and here is the response he got:
HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 17:53:24 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 226
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<head><title>Not Acceptable!</title></head><body><h1>Not
Acceptable!</h1><p>An appropriate representation of the requested
resource could not be found on this server. This error was generated by
Mod_Security.</p></body></html>
He's then suggsted that: "Apparently, Hostgator is using Mod_Security that detects your request as not valid in some way. Maybe the User Agent is missing or is not standard?maybe the user agent is missing or not standard"
Should I be using a different function rather than quickGetStr?
Magic! That did the trick! Many thanks. I can only assume that HostGator has some security which rejects http requests from "non humans"
Me too. When i put url : http://www.w3.org/Protocols/. The html return correct content. But when i put http://blackforever.net/ the string html return "" (NULL) although connected successful. Anybody can help with other function ? I am using thew newest verion Jul 9 2013 in VC6.0
Thank a lot
Have you tried setting MimicIe as suggested to me halfway down this page? It worked for me...