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If you're new to web scraping, API calls, and http protocol, this is a great discussion you need to see!
Web scraping, APIS and HTTP Traffic
If you're trying to use URLdownloadtoFile, WinHTTPRequest, or automate Chrome, this is a great overview of the high-level principles of what you're doing and different approaches.

Wouldn't this go in Tutorials?

Nice discussion! I'd be interested in a follow up that covers a few issues I haven't seen covered in the help file or forum topics on URL downloading.
- security: Are some download/scraping methods using less secure connections? Is that dependent on some settings in IE or wherever?
- privacy: Are downloads/scraping that use IE, Chrome and similar tools by default added to the browser history or otherwise logged in the system?
- speed: Are some download/scraping method faster than others, when downloading larger files. For example curl.exe vs UrlDownloadToFile vs others.