Vorbis - Oct 2006 - Problem in devloping basic ogg streaming player for windows-Please help

Hi,
I am devloping a basic ogg player. I have taken help from this turorial:
http://www.devmaster.net/articles/openal-tutorials/lesson8.php
Thanks to jesse.

It is using openAL and ogg sdk. I am able to compile and execute this sample
perfactly fine. And ogg file on disk is playing perfactly fine. This
tutorial is using 2 buffers for streaming.

My requirement is to play file through URL like
http://mp3stream.wfmu.org:8008/wfmu.ogg. But when I am trying to do that
fopen is failing in following code.
if(!(oggFile = fopen(path.c_str(), "rb")))
        throw string("Could not open Ogg file.");

As fopen gives handel for files which are on disk only.

So can anybody help me How to play a file using URL in windows?  Any code
snippet/tutorial would be highly appriciated .
Is this tutorial works fine to play ogg streams through URL ?


Thanks,
Tapesh.
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:05:35PM +0530, Tapesh Goyal wrote:
> So can anybody help me How to play a file using URL in windows?  Any code
> snippet/tutorial would be highly appriciated .
> Is this tutorial works fine to play ogg streams through URL ?
No, as you say, the tutorial uses fopen() which only works for local 
disk files. You have to use an http library to open a URL.

I'm not familiar with Windows APIs, so I don't have any specific advice.
A quick look at msdn suggests 'HttpOpenRequest()' and subsequent calls 
might be a good place to start. (WinINet library) You'd use this 
together with ov_open_callbacks() to feed data from the http stream to 
libvorbisfile.

HTH,
 -r