POST to SSL web page from a win forms app

[Guest]

Hi,

I am trying to write a windows forms app that will automatically sign a user
into a website that uses SSL and then using data from a database, submit this
data to the website from the windows app, rather than the form on the web
page.

I am unsure where to start looking for information regarding posting data to
a web page from a windows form application. I have searched the internet and
have pretty much drawn a blank.

Is anybody aware that this is possible? Also is it possible to achieve this
without knowing what is going on at the server end, as I am not the
administrator of the website.

Thanks for any help

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Kevin,

In my opinion is this one of the start points for your question.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ml/frlrfsystemnethttpwebrequestclasstopic.asp

I hope this helps?

Cor

 

[Guest]

Cor,

Thanks for the help, I had a look at the HTTPWebRequest class this
afternoon, and setup a test site to try some test posts. I managed to get
part of the application working but not all of it.

I have done some further digging and found out that the site I would be
posting to has a web service to perform the same function!

I have opted for the web service route )

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Take a look "Networking" part in http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/howto/