read url

From: Georg Klein (kronion_at_gmx.de)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 17:40:59 +0100

Hi all,
this is a newbie-question again, but i couldn't find a solution on the net:
I want to open a url (like
fopen ("http://www.site.com/welcome.jpg", "r");
 ) and copy the file to a local file (like "copy welcome.jpg A:")
How can I open the file?
Thanks
Georg