This is a narrow post. If you don’t understand or don’t care, do skip it (you won’t be missing much). For the rest, and for the search engines, here’s some trivia.<\/p>\n
There are a bunch of handy functions<\/a> in the Win32 Shell API<\/span> for handling file paths and URLs, provided by SHLWAPI.DLL. <\/span>One of these, UrlGetPart<\/a>, is described thusly:<\/p>\n Accepts a [sic] URL<\/span> string and returns a specified part of that URL.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Very handy function, until you realize that the one part of an URL<\/span> you can’t specify to be returned is the path. For example, in the (fictitious) url:<\/p>\n http:\/\/bond:007@example.com\/topsecret\/martini.cgi?method=shaken+not+stirred<\/code>code>http:\/\/bond:007@example.com\/topsecret\/martini.cgi?method=shaken+not+stirred<\/code<\/a><\/p>\n I can use UrlGetPart to retrieve the scheme (http:), the username (bond), the password (007), the host (example.com), and the query (?method=shaken+not+stirred), but I cannot<\/em> retrieve the path (\/topsecret\/martini.cgi).<\/p>\n So, How do extract the path from an URL<\/span> using UrlGetPart? You don’t. Instead, use InternetCrackUrl<\/a>, in wininet.dll. If you need to do this from VB6 <\/span>(and this may work with VB5,<\/span> but I’ve not tried it), take a look at this helper class<\/a>, which also supports a few other handy URL<\/span>-handling functions. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a narrow post. If you don’t understand or don’t care, do skip it (you won’t be missing much). For the rest, and for the search engines, here’s some trivia. There are a bunch of handy functions in the Win32 Shell API for handling file paths and URLs, provided by SHLWAPI.DLL. One of these, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoftish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}