I'm trying to load a PDF file from an URL however I don't appear to be making any progress.  I'm assuming there isn't a LoadFromUrl function available.

I'm loading the URL into a string and trying to load the pdf using LoadFromString however it doesn't appear to work.  It will happily load the PDF from file so there isn't a problem with the file.  If I load the pdf from file and use the saveasstring option the string only differes from the string I am trying to use in terms of non-printable characters i.e. #$D and #$A.  Does anyone have anyideas as to how to fix the string so it can be loaded?

NB In the code that follows I've just loaded a file directly into a text string from a file it produces the same problem / string but I've included the code to load the URL into a string form completeness.

 

Thanks

 

Paul

 

Code as follows :-

 

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  DefaultPrnName, instr , outstr : string;
  a,b : TQuickPDF;
  opt, res : integer;
  pdfvar : variant;
begin
    res := -1;
  //  pdffile :=  FetchURL('[insert valid http:// url here!]');
    with TStringList.Create do
      try
        LoadFromFile('C:\testin.pdf');
        instr := Text;
      finally
        Free;
      end;
 //   instr := StringReplace(instr,#$D,'',[rfReplaceAll]);
    a := TQuickPDF.Create(nil);
    a.UnlockKey('32363445205D56F99BB6B52279189F55'); // DEMO key!!
    res := a.LoadFromString(instr,length(instr));
    showmessage(IntToStr(res));
    opt := a.PrintOptions(1,1,'EMACS PDF Print');
    showmessage(IntToStr(res));
    a.SaveToFile('c:\test.pdf');
    a.free;

end;

 

function TForm1.FetchURL(const sURL: String): String;
var AmtRead : Cardinal;
  Buffer : array[0..1023]  of char;
  {bufferlength, dwreserv : dword;}
  i:integer;   
  SizeString, WebPage : string;
  SomeName : string;   hHttpSession, hReqUrl : HInternet;   Count : integer;
begin
    WebPage := ''; {a big string where the webpage will go}
    SomeName := 'Web page grabber 1.0';  {whatever ID you want to show up in the servers log}

    hHttpSession := InternetOpen(PChar(SomeName),  {open a handle to the net}
      INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG, nil, nil, 0);
try
   hReqUrl := InternetOpenURL (hHttpSession, PChar(SUrl), {request the url from the net}
     nil, 0,0,0);
   try
     Count := 0;
     repeat
               InternetReadFile (hReqUrl, @Buffer,  {read file into 1 KB buffer}
                       sizeof (Buffer), AmtRead);
               If AmtRead <> 0 then begin {code loops through that one last time}
                     If AmtRead = sizeof(Buffer) then
                               WebPage := WebPage + string(Buffer) {store in the big string}
                     else begin {if Amt is less than sizeof(Buffer) on the last go round
                                and you simply append the whole buffer, you will get
                                the end of the file plus whatever crap is left over in
                                the buffer from the previous kilobyte downloaded}
                         for i := 0 to AmtRead - 1 do
                             Webpage := Webpage + Buffer; {the crude way}