wow! Thats interesting

Hey I've just been looking through that forum again, the one that had the 'sendrequest' thin in it - I looked back there to see if anyone had referenced to winsock in there code examples (there were a lot of different examples), the first bit of code I looked at did not use winsock - it was small and used some other method, I'm not really sure how it works, but anyway I copied it into vb6 - ran it and voila! it went to google copied the source code and stuck it in a text file named google! WOHO!!!! Now that I know I can retrieve data from the net, all I have to do now is learn how to manipulate the text files - you know, search through them looking for emails and such. My only concern is I will be downloading a lot of data, I need to know how to delete the files once they've been delt with or to find a more efficient way to just view the files rather than download them, it could be quite intensive/demanding on the computers internet connection. Well I need to investigate, I'm gonna look at how it friggin' works and then go ahead with the searchinating of files - oh and don't worry, winsock still hasn't gone, I'll keep it in the the back of my mind, it seemed rather interesting.