Question

I’m making a program to setup a server, but I can’t find out how to download a file from the internet in the c++ program. Preferably downloading a library or something.
Also, I am still a beginning programmer.
I’m using:
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 64x
Notepad ++
Borland’s C++ compiler v5.1

Answer 1

There are many ways of doing that. The best for you way to go about this, in my opinion, is by using cURL library (aka libcurl). Start from reading some documentation. This example can also be helpful as it does exactly that. And of course you can always go other (less popular?) ways:

1. Use Qt Network library (example).
2. Use Poco C++ Libraries (here is some introductory PDF).
3. Find some other libraries and try them out.
4. Do it yourself.

Hope it helps.