I have a web page that I want to automate a post to. I would use the web
request. However the post involves a file upload. What would be the best way
of doing this? Regards, Chris.

Unfortunately, there is no way to do that. The reason for this is because as
a security measure, there is no way to programmatically select the file that
the FileUpload control (which generates an input type="file" tag). Sorry,
but security does have it's occasional drawbacks.
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"Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a web page that I want to automate a post to. I would use the web
>request. However the post involves a file upload. What would be the best
>way of doing this? Regards, Chris.
>

Sorry I didn't make myself clear. There is a form I manually have to upload
a file to. I have the file and want to automate the process by posting a
stream to the form and have it upload and process the file.Regards, Chris.

"Nathan Sokalski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Unfortunately, there is no way to do that. The reason for this is because
> as a security measure, there is no way to programmatically select the file
> that the FileUpload control (which generates an input type="file" tag).
> Sorry, but security does have it's occasional drawbacks.
> --
> Nathan Sokalski
> (E-Mail Removed)
> http://www.nathansokalski.com/
>
> "Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I have a web page that I want to automate a post to. I would use the web
>>request. However the post involves a file upload. What would be the best
>>way of doing this? Regards, Chris.
>>
>
>

"Nathan Sokalski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Sorry, but security does have it's occasional drawbacks.

Though not in this case, obviously...

You can use one of the overloaded methods of the simplified WebClient Class.
I believe it is "UploadData".
Peter

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"Chris" wrote:

> Sorry I didn't make myself clear. There is a form I manually have to upload
> a file to. I have the file and want to automate the process by posting a
> stream to the form and have it upload and process the file.Regards, Chris.
>
> "Nathan Sokalski" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Unfortunately, there is no way to do that. The reason for this is because
> > as a security measure, there is no way to programmatically select the file
> > that the FileUpload control (which generates an input type="file" tag).
> > Sorry, but security does have it's occasional drawbacks.
> > --
> > Nathan Sokalski
> > (E-Mail Removed)
> > http://www.nathansokalski.com/
> >
> > "Chris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >>I have a web page that I want to automate a post to. I would use the web
> >>request. However the post involves a file upload. What would be the best
> >>way of doing this? Regards, Chris.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>