Hello all...

I open a HTML page using wininet.dll - how can I set the request timeout 
to e.g. 1000 milliseconds? When opening "dead" pages, it hangs for a long 
time before it proceeds...

Code:


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 hInternetSession As Long, ByVal sURL As 
String, ByVal sHeaders As String, ByVal lHeadersLength 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

Public Const IF_FROM_CACHE = &H1000000
Public Const IF_MAKE_PERSISTENT = &H2000000
Public Const IF_NO_CACHE_WRITE = &H4000000
       
Private Const BUFFER_LEN = 256


Public Function GetUrlSource(sURL As String) As String
    On Error GoTo Quit
    Dim sBuffer As String * BUFFER_LEN, iResult As Integer, sData As String
    Dim hInternet As Long, hSession As Long, lReturn As Long

    'get the handle of the current internet connection
    hSession = InternetOpen("vb wininet", 1, vbNullString, vbNullString, 0)
    'get the handle of the url
    If hSession Then hInternet = InternetOpenUrl(hSession, sURL, 
vbNullString, 0, IF_NO_CACHE_WRITE, 0)
    'if we have the handle, then start reading the web page
    If hInternet Then
        'get the first chunk & buffer it.
        iResult = InternetReadFile(hInternet, sBuffer, BUFFER_LEN, lReturn)
        sData = sBuffer
        'if there's more data then keep reading it into the buffer
        Do While lReturn <> 0
            iResult = InternetReadFile(hInternet, sBuffer, BUFFER_LEN, 
lReturn)
            sData = sData + Mid(sBuffer, 1, lReturn)
        Loop
    End If
   
    'close the URL
    iResult = InternetCloseHandle(hInternet)

    GetUrlSource = sData
Quit:
End Function

Thanks in advance, 

Yoel Pedersen