Thanx Martin:
I got a little further as you suggested. I was already using WebClient, so
was able to follow a link using
Dim WCInstance As WebClient = New WebClient
returnValue = WCInstance.DownloadData(ItemURL)
then parse that page and follow the signon link. Now when I get to the
login form I have:
<form name="loginForm" id="loginForm" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="current_form" value="loginForm" />
so there is nothing poiting to a URL to submit to and the submit button uses
JavaScript to submit:
<div class="action-button" style="" id="button-signin">
<a id="button-signin-link" href='#'
onclick='document.getElementById("loginForm").subm it(); return false;'>
<div class="end-cap img-action-button-cap-left"></div>
<div class="content hand"><span class="title" id="button-signin-title"
>Sign In</span></div>
<div class="end-cap img-action-button-cap-right"></div>
</a>
</div>
<input type="hidden" name="action_login" value="Log In">
I am not sure how to proceed. Please advise.
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"Martin Honnen" <ma*******@yahoo.dewrote in message
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Anil Gupte/iCinema.com wrote:
>How can programmatically I fill in a form on a web page in VB? This is
in a desktop program and I am using Webclient right now to get info on a
page. In some cases it asks me to login and I want it to be automatic.
If you fill in a form on a "web page" and submit that then a HTTP request
is made that sends the form data. You can do that with WebClient or with
WebRequest, check the HTML document of the page to find out the control
names in the form, the action URI attribute to submit to and the request
method (e.g. GET or POST), then program the corresponding request with
WebClient or WebRequest.
WebClient has methods like this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/900ted1f.aspx to make a GET or
POST request with a collection of data.
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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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