autoit: what's the difference between inetget and inetread

Question

I see there are two functions in autoit to download files from the internet: inetget and inetread.

What's the difference between the two? The only difference I see is that inetGet has more options and is therefore better.

Answer 1

Inetget() supports background download (your script will continue its work while your file will keep downloading) and returns you a handle you can use with Inetgetinfo(). Inetread can do nothing of this.

Read the manual carefully, everything is described there. :)
By the way, AutoIT's doc is very good to me.

Answer 2

There IS a big difference! InetRead() directly returns the downloaded string, so you can assign it to variable while InetGet needs a filename parameter to store into, so if you periodically get some data it may be better to use inetread instead to prevent hdd usage.