logging onto another site on another server

[MotorcycleIke]

I tried using WebRequest, but I am unable to simply

redirect to an external aspx site and supply the userid and password and
press their login button.

Can anyone help?

Thanks, I've spent a couple of days on this and am now braindead.

[jeremiah johnson]

I don't know the details of the form you're using, but if its a web form
(rendered in the browser by html) then you can probably just construct a
WebRequest using details supplied by the HTML code.

for example (hah i almost typed foreach!):

<form action="http://abc.com/foo.cgi">
<input type=text name=username>
<input type=password name=password>
<input type=submit>
</form>

you could construct a request with a URL of this to login:

http://abc.com/foo.cgi?username="+username+"&password="+password;

that's just to pass the login details in. you'll have to manage the
cookies and whatnot but that /should/ get you logged in. that would
work with any site i've used, but newer technologies have been created
that I've not had to interact with.

Best of luck!

jeremiah

MotorcycleIke wrote:

I tried using WebRequest, but I am unable to simply

redirect to an external aspx site and supply the userid and password and
press their login button.

Can anyone help?

Thanks, I've spent a couple of days on this and am now braindead.

[MotorcycleIke]

Thanks a lot! What I tried with the webrequest made a local copy, it
didn't log me onto their site. I forgot to mention that we want to hide
the username and password from the user.

jeremiah johnson wrote:

I don't know the details of the form you're using, but if its a web form
(rendered in the browser by html) then you can probably just construct a
WebRequest using details supplied by the HTML code.

for example (hah i almost typed foreach!):

<form action="http://abc.com/foo.cgi">
<input type=text name=username>
<input type=password name=password>
<input type=submit>
</form>

you could construct a request with a URL of this to login:

http://abc.com/foo.cgi?username="+username+"&password="+password;

that's just to pass the login details in. you'll have to manage the
cookies and whatnot but that /should/ get you logged in. that would
work with any site i've used, but newer technologies have been created
that I've not had to interact with.

Best of luck!

jeremiah

MotorcycleIke wrote:

I tried using WebRequest, but I am unable to simply

redirect to an external aspx site and supply the userid and password
and press their login button.

Can anyone help?

Thanks, I've spent a couple of days on this and am now braindead.

[MotorcycleIke]

I got the webrequest to populate a webresponse and copy the website onto
our server. That doesn't do any good.
What I need to do is get the viewstate, add the login information and
postback to the external site.
I haven't had any luck.

I spent an hour at Barnes & Noble looking for a book that could help.
No luck.

This sounds so easy to do, but I am totally clueless.

Anyone have suggestions?
Thanks,

MotorcycleIke wrote:

I tried using WebRequest, but I am unable to simply

redirect to an external aspx site and supply the userid and password and
press their login button.

Can anyone help?

Thanks, I've spent a couple of days on this and am now braindead.