Open Zip from URL (OpenFromWeb)

Download Chilkat 32-bit Zip ActiveX (.msi) (includes objects for .zip, .gz, .bz2, and .Z)

Download All 32-bit Chilkat ActiveX Components (.zip)

Download All 64-bit Chilkat ActiveX Components (.zip)

Open a .zip from a URL and unzip.

LOCAL loZip
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL lnFileCount
LOCAL lcFileContents
LOCAL loEntry
LOCAL lnAddCR

loZip = CreateObject('Chilkat.Zip2')

*  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
lnSuccess = loZip.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loZip.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Downloads a .zip into memory and opens it.
lnSuccess = loZip.OpenFromWeb("http://www.chilkatsoft.com/testData/hamlet.zip")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loZip.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  It can be unzipped to disk:

lnFileCount = loZip.Unzip("c:/temp")
IF (lnFileCount < 0) THEN
    =MESSAGEBOX(loZip.LastErrorText)
    QUIT
ENDIF

*  Alternatively, individual entries may be unzipped into memory.
*  In this case, it is unzipped into a string:

lnAddCR = 1
loEntry = loZip.GetEntryByName("hamlet.xml")
IF (NOT (loEntry = NULL )) THEN
    *  If the file has bare LF line endings, add the CR to get
    *  CRLF line endings.
    lcFileContents = loEntry.InflateToString(lnAddCR)
    ? lcFileContents
ENDIF