confused.

[JABOSL]

Can someone tell me exactly what these lines do?

Dim REQUEST As Net.HttpWebRequest
REQUEST.Timeout = 60000
REQUEST = Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(URL)

in line 1 you are saying request will be an instance of net.httpwebrequest.

in line 2 you are setting the timeout value of? The class httpwebrequest? or the instance of httpwebrequest?

is line 1 like saying x will be an integer and line 3 like saying x = 3? If so I guess line 2 is setting the property of the class timeout to 60000 which must be able to be done before a real object is created. Well, when is the object created? Line 1 or 3?

 

[chrissie1]

the object is created in line 1 but not instantiated you just tell it to be of type httpwebrequest. and then you create or fill it with a nonnull value in line 3 so it could be line 2 gets overriden in line 3.

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

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[JABOSL]

So it'd be poor practice to have REQUEST.Timeout=60000 between creation and instantiation, right? put line 2 after line 3.