Automating a login/data retreival

[danielduq]

Hey everyone,

This is my first post here - so I'm not sure I'll phrase this question
right, but here goes:

I need to create a Visual Basic 6 program to automate a login to a web
site and then retreive data from that site. To be honest, I don't
really know where to start. I have used VB6 in the past, but not to do
anything like this. Does anyone know of any suggested web sites to read
or sample code that you could copy and paste?

I would appreciate any help you could send.

Thanks so much,

Daniel

 

[Simon Verona]

Unfortunately, this is a newsgroup for VB Dotnet (ie VB7+).

You should look at one of the microsoft.public.vb.xxx newsgroups.

Having said that I'm guessing the login screen uses an http "post" from a
form to do the login. If you google using
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=vb6+http+post&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
there seem to be a few links.

Hope this helps
Regards
Simon

 

[aaron.kempf]

this is a VB newsgroup; all vb newsgroups are created equally


you have about a dozen ways to do this

a) internet transfer control
b) right-click LINK to the HTML inside of a Access MDB
c) ServerXmlHttp
d) FTP.exe


We welcome _ALL_ Vb questions here; please be sure to crosspost into
microsoft.public.vb

 

[RobinS]

This is a VB.Net and VB2005 newsgroup. VB6 questions should not
be cross-posted here.

Thanks,
Robin S.
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[aaron.kempf]

Robin;

you are WRONG

all VB newsgroups are the same
there shouldn't have been a 'newsgroup rename' when the language was
renamed from VB7 to VB.net 2002 and VB.net 2003.

as it is they either

a) need to change the name of the newsgroup again
or
b) admit that they shouldn't have changed the newsgroup in the first
place.

right now; microsoft sells a product named Visual Basic 2005; I don't
understand; and I refuse to listen to people that thing that I can't
talk about Vb 2005 at Microsoft.public.vb

If Microsoft did some simple things-- like simplify-- then maybe they
would demonstrate to us that they're not going to discontinue VB

-Aaron