URL Access Manager

Introduction

The URL Access Manager is an API that you can use to perform data transfer to and from a URL from within your application. It includes support for automatic decompression of compressed files and for automatic file extraction from Stuffit archives (with version 5.0 of Stuffit).

The URL Access Manager allows you to use any of the following protocols during download operations: File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS), or a URL representing a local file (begins with file:///). You might use the latter to test your application on a computer that does not have access to an HTTP or FTP server. For upload operations, you must use an FTP URL.

This document describes the URL Access Manager API through version 2.0.3.

The programming interface for URL Access Manager is declared in the following header files:

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