Parsing MT4 config files

External question — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: Woody1193 Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75505964 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I'm trying to write an install script for an MT4 expert advisor. Part of the installation process includes adding an allowed WebRequest URL. I assume this is saved as a setting in C:\Users\{User ID}\AppData\Roaming\MetaQuotes\Terminal\{Terminal ID}\config\experts.ini as I can see the allowed URLs there, but I cannot parse this data as no editor I have can decode it. Is this file parsed using a proprietary encoding or is it encrypted in some way? Any help here would be appreciated.

External answer — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: user22527101 Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/77071615 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. unfortunately, web requests are encrypted for security reasons , so the only way it to add them manually via the terminal or use a third-party dll to execute web requests.

External answer — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: Woody1193 Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/77103494 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. The only solution I could think of to address this issue was to create my own HTTP web request library, here , and use it to submit HTTP requests. #include <mql-http/Request.mqh> #include <mql5-json/Json.mqh> int SendWebRequest(const object request) { string body = ConvertToJSON(request); // You'll have to write your own JSON converter HttpRequest req("POST", m_send_addr, body); req.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json"); req.AddHeader("Authorization", m_auth_header); HttpResponse resp; int errCode = req.Send(resp); if (errCode != 0) { return errCode; } else if (resp.StatusCode != 200) { return resp.StatusCode; } else { return 0; } } At the moment this is pretty bare-bones but it's open-source so feel free to modify and contribute.