Microsoft KB Archive/244757

= How To Download a File Without Prompting =

Article ID: 244757

Article Last Modified on 7/1/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
 * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition

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This article was previously published under Q244757



SUMMARY
The WebBrowser control and Internet Explorer have Save and Save As options that can be used to save files using the ExecWB command. However, this involves prompting from the user. There is no way to suppress this prompt. To save files to the hard-disk without prompting, use the URLDownloadToFile API from URLMON.



MORE INFORMATION
The declaration for URLDownloadToFile is as follows: Private Declare Function URLDownloadToFile Lib "urlmon" Alias _ "URLDownloadToFileA" (ByVal pCaller As Long, ByVal szURL As String, ByVal _ szFileName As String, ByVal dwReserved As Long, ByVal lpfnCB As Long) As Long

The function can be called as follows: returnValue = URLDownloadToFile(0, "http://www.microsoft.com/ms.htm", _ "c:\ms.htm", 0, 0) Note that when downloading HTML files, embedded content like images and objects will not be downloaded.

