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This is going to sound suspicious probably..

Is there a DLL (or maybe a command I don't know of) that can download a file from a remote web server? For that matter, is it even possible to make such a DLL?

I am making a client for a graphical game that, if I have my way, can get updated graphics from the server.

making it with mIRC? You can just use mIRC's socket support. If using C/C++ or whatever, I think you'd be using winsock

This post should do pretty much what you're after.

Nah you don't use Winsock, you get lazy and use Wininet which does everything for you, you just say "download the file" "store it here" and you're done

Erm, I just was under the impression there was something more difficult to file transfers than just a raw transfer of their contents. ^-^

that depends on what kind of file you're transferring. a human readable (read: .txt, .mrc, .html, etc) file can be transferred simply by requesting the file from the server and writing the contents of your /sockread variable.

and even if it is a binary file (read: .exe, .com, etc), you've got /bwrite to write binary data to files.

Well it depends on the protocol, I assume you're talking HTTP? Then for the most part, it is just sending the contents of the file.