NSIS-DL 1.1 - http downloading DLL for NSIS Copyright (C) 2001 Yaroslav Faybishenko & Justin Frankel This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. This dll can be used from NSIS to download files via http. How to use (for another example, see waplugin.nsi in the nsis directory): Pass the url and filename on the stack Result is returned in $0 "cancel" if cancelled "success" if success otherwise, an error string describing the error Example: ; pack the dll in the install file File /oname=$TEMP\nsdtmp09.dll nsisdl.dll ; make the call to download Push "http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~yaroslav/photos/mike/mike1-full.jpg" Push "$INSTDIR\test.jpg" CallInstDLL $TEMP\nsdtmp09.dll download ; for a quiet install, use download_quiet ; delete DLL from temporary directory Delete $TEMP\nsdtmp09.dll ; check if download succeeded StrCmp $0 "success" successful StrCmp $0 "cancel" cancelled ; we failed DetailPrint "Download failed: $0" goto done cancelled: DetailPrint "Download cancelled" goto done successful: DetailPrint "Download successful" ExecShell $INSTDIR\test.jpg goto done