+\wxheading{Example}
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+ wxURL url("http://a.host/a.dir/a.file");
+ wxInputStream *in_stream;
+
+ in_stream = url.GetInputStream();
+ // Then, you can use all IO calls of in_stream (See wxStream)
+\end{verbatim}
+
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-Constructs an URL object from the string.
+Constructs a URL object from the string. The URL must be valid according
+to RFC 1738. In particular, file URLs must be of the format
+'file://hostname/path/to/file'. It is valid to leave out the hostname
+but slashes must remain in place-- i.e. a file URL without a hostname must
+contain three consecutive slashes.
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_NOERR}}{No error.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_SNTXERR}}{Syntax error in the URL string.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_NOPROTO}}{Found no protocol which can get this URL.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_NOHOST}}{An host name is required for this protocol.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_NOPATH}}{A path is required for this protocol.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_CONNERR}}{Connection error.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_NOERR}}{No error.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_SNTXERR}}{Syntax error in the URL string.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_NOPROTO}}{Found no protocol which can get this URL.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_NOHOST}}{An host name is required for this protocol.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_NOPATH}}{A path is required for this protocol.}
\twocolitem{{\bf wxURL\_CONNERR}}{Connection error.}
-Initializes the protocol and opens the input stream.
+Creates a new input stream on the the specified URL. You can use all but seek
+functionality of wxStream. Seek isn't available on all stream. For example,
+http or ftp streams doesn't deal with it.