POST an XML string to a URL from a windows form

[Andreas Kviby]

I have a HTML-form that I need to be able to POST from my VB.NET client
application and store the resulting XML in a STRING or XML-document.

This is the HTML-form code:
<form name="form1" method="post" action="http://www.ourdomainname.se/xml">
<textarea name="xmlrequest" cols="80" rows="20">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<searchgetevents>
<header>
<saler_id>0</saler_id>
<request_id>0</request_id>
<requestdatetime>2005-09-03</requestdatetime>
<responsetype>xml</responsetype>
</header>
<request>
<size>0</size>
<index>0</index>
<event_id>0</event_id>
<eventname></eventname>
<city_id>0</city_id>
<venue_id>0</venue_id>
<venuetype_id>0</venuetype_id>
<venuename></venuename>
<audit_id>0</audit_id>
<program_id>0</program_id>
<programtype_id>0</programtype_id>
<fromdate>2005-09-03 17:00:00</fromdate>
<todate>2005-10-03 17:00:00</todate>
<otavailable>false</otavailable>
</request>
</searchgetevents>
</textarea>
<br>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send">
</form>

I need to submit that from inside VB windows form and I have tried several
solutions with no success. Please help me solve this urgent issue.

The HTML-form works greats and it will give me this result back in the
browser:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2" ?>
- <response_searchgetevents>
- <header>
<saler_id>0</saler_id>
<request_id>2197</request_id>
<requestdatetime>2005-09-03</requestdatetime>
<responsedatetime>2005-09-03 22:24:29</responsedatetime>
<responsetype>xml</responsetype>
<requestsize>0</requestsize>
<requestindex>0</requestindex>
<responsecount>2</responsecount>
</header>
- <response>
- <event>
<event_id>20</event_id>
<eventdate>2005-09-08 19:00:00</eventdate>
<networkclosetime>1900-01-01 01:00:00</networkclosetime>
<venue_id>3</venue_id>
<venuename>CLIENT 1</venuename>
<venuetype_id>0</venuetype_id>
<audit_id>6</audit_id>
<auditname>ROOM2</auditname>
<city_id>0</city_id>
<cityname>Default</cityname>
<program_id>8</program_id>
<programname>Programname</programname>
<programsubtype_id>3</programsubtype_id>
<arrivalorder>0</arrivalorder>
<ticketavailable>Y</ticketavailable>
<networkvisible>Y</networkvisible>
<eventstatus_id>1</eventstatus_id>
<eventstatus />
<colour>0</colour>
<auditlink />
<programlink />
<picturelink />
</event>
</response>
</response_searchgetevents>

Please help me

[Pascal Schmitt]

Hello!

I need to submit that from inside VB windows form and I have tried several
solutions with no success. Please help me solve this urgent issue.

Is there a reason why you have to submit that form and not directly use
HTTP POST from your Application?
The .NET Framework includes classes for HTTP communication:

See <http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/System.Net.HttpWebRequest>
You just have to set Method to POST and write the request-body yourself,
as a browser would do.
--
Pascal Schmitt