title: Open URL using Delphi
body: <p>I'm doing a little (or at least I'm hoping it's little) favor for a friend, but haven't used Delphi in 10 or so years... and my searches haven't been of much use</p>
  
  <p>What I'm trying to do is to GET an URL and then parse the HTML to find some info he needs. I'm hoping for something like this (in python) <code>fileHandle = urllib2.urlopen(urlStr)</code> and fileHandle would receive the HTML of the page I requested. All examples I found opened the default browser, but </p>
  
  <p>I'm using linux, with Lazarus and Free Pascal, he is using Delphi 7 (if I recall correctly) if that matters at all.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>