title: WinHTTP Error Invalid URL
body: <p>How do you specify a URL with path for example: <code>http://stackoverflow.com/questions</code>.</p>
  
  <p>The following works but not with the URL specified above in example.</p>
  
  <pre><code> LPCWSTR useragent = L"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12 GTB7.1 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)";
   DWORD dwSize = 0;
   DWORD dwDownloaded = 0;
   LPSTR pszOutBuffer;
   BOOL  bResults = FALSE;
   HINTERNET  hSession = NULL, hConnect = NULL, hRequest = NULL;
  
   // Use WinHttpOpen to obtain a session handle.
   hSession = WinHttpOpen(useragent,  
          WINHTTP_ACCESS_TYPE_DEFAULT_PROXY,
          WINHTTP_NO_PROXY_NAME, 
          WINHTTP_NO_PROXY_BYPASS, 0 );
  
   // Specify an HTTP server.
   if( hSession )
    hConnect = WinHttpConnect( hSession, L"www.stackoverflow.com",
            INTERNET_DEFAULT_HTTPS_PORT, 0 );
  
   // Create an HTTP request handle.
   if( hConnect )
   hRequest = WinHttpOpenRequest( hConnect, L"GET", NULL, NULL,WINHTTP_NO_REFERER, 
         WINHTTP_DEFAULT_ACCEPT_TYPES, 
        WINHTTP_FLAG_SECURE );
  
   // Send a request.
    if( hRequest ) bResults = WinHttpSendRequest(hRequest, WINHTTP_NO_ADDITIONAL_HEADERS, 0, WINHTTP_NO_REQUEST_DATA, 0, 0, 0 );
  
   // End the request.
   if( bResults )
   bResults = WinHttpReceiveResponse( hRequest, NULL );
  </code></pre>