Har själv mycket dåliga erfarenheter av Inetkontrollen på Win9x.
Ett alternativ som funkat för mig är att strunta i kontrollen och direkt anropa funktionerna i wininet.dll.
Kod för att ladda ner fil till disk:
Dim hOpen As Long
Dim hOpenUrl As Long
Dim bDoLoop As Boolean
Dim bRet As Boolean
Dim sReadBuffer As String * 2048
Dim lNumberOfBytesRead As Long
Dim sBuffer As String
Dim iFree As Long
iFree = FreeFile
hOpen = InternetOpen(scUserAgent, INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG, vbNullString, vbNullString, 0)
hOpenUrl = InternetOpenUrl(hOpen, "http://" & <URL till bild>, vbNullString, 0, INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD, 0)
bDoLoop = True
While bDoLoop
sReadBuffer = vbNullString
bRet = InternetReadFile(hOpenUrl, sReadBuffer, Len(sReadBuffer), lNumberOfBytesRead)
sBuffer = sBuffer & Left$(sReadBuffer, lNumberOfBytesRead)
If Not CBool(lNumberOfBytesRead) Then bDoLoop = False
Wend
If hOpenUrl <> 0 Then InternetCloseHandle (hOpenUrl)
If hOpen <> 0 Then InternetCloseHandle (hOpen)
Open <ditt filnamn> For Binary Access Write As #iFree: Put #iFree, , sBuffer: Close #iFree
Tillhörande deklarationer (lägg i basfil):
Public Const INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG = 0
Public Const INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_DIRECT = 1
Public Const INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PROXY = 3
Public Const scUserAgent = "VB OpenUrl"
Public Const INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD = &H80000000
Public 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
Public Declare Function InternetOpenUrl Lib "wininet.dll" Alias "InternetOpenUrlA" _
(ByVal hOpen As Long, ByVal sUrl As String, ByVal sHeaders As String, _
ByVal lLength As Long, ByVal lFlags As Long, ByVal lContext As Long) As Long
Public Declare Function InternetReadFile Lib "wininet.dll" _
(ByVal hFile As Long, ByVal sBuffer As String, ByVal lNumBytesToRead As Long, _
lNumberOfBytesRead As Long) As Integer
Public Declare Function InternetCloseHandle Lib "wininet.dll" _
(ByVal hInet As Long) As Integer
