Capturing data

[Tim]

I have an interesting challenge in front of me and I am
not sure where to begin.

I need to accomplish the following:

While a user is visiting our website, I need to launch a
process to capture data from a provider's web page,
collect some data related to the information our visitor
is entering and return related information to the visitor
of our site on a web page.

The design I am presented with suggests using the IE
object in a VB app to visit the provider's site, scrape
the data we need from their web page and return to our
visitor pertinent information, based on information found
on the other web page. All of this is to take place with
out the visitor realizing it.

Any suggestions where I can start with this?

I have ASP, SQL and VB at my disposal.

[Dino Chiesa [Microsoft]]

do you not have .NET available?
if you cannot use .NET, then you are in the wrong newsgroup!

If .NET, then I would use System.Net.WebRequest - it's simple and easy to
screen-scrape using this class.

"Tim" <ti*@2turniton.com> wrote in message
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I have an interesting challenge in front of me and I am
not sure where to begin.

I need to accomplish the following:

While a user is visiting our website, I need to launch a
process to capture data from a provider's web page,
collect some data related to the information our visitor
is entering and return related information to the visitor
of our site on a web page.

The design I am presented with suggests using the IE
object in a VB app to visit the provider's site, scrape
the data we need from their web page and return to our
visitor pertinent information, based on information found
on the other web page. All of this is to take place with
out the visitor realizing it.

Any suggestions where I can start with this?

I have ASP, SQL and VB at my disposal.