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----------------------------------------------------------- From: AboutShaily Message 1 in Discussion I am very new to writing a web-cralwer which programatically loging to a site. My Requirements are: I need to browse the "http://mail.rediff.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi"; site daily to see if there is new Email present in my Inbox. I want to automate this whole process by writing a web crawler which will crawl these site,enter my login username and password then let me know if there is any new email. I started writing like below: Currently the way I am doing is : private void login() { HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://mail.rediff.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi";); req.Method = "Post"; string s = "login=shaily req.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer(); req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; //Set the POST data in a buffer byte[] PostBuffer = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetBytes(s); //Specify the length of the buffer req.ContentLength = PostBuffer.Length; //Open up a request stream Stream RequestStream = req.GetRequestStream(); //Write the POST data RequestStream.Write(PostBuffer, 0, PostBuffer.Length); //Close the stream RequestStream.Close(); //Create the Response object HttpWebResponse Response = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse(); //Create the reader for the response StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(Response.GetResponseStream(),Encoding.GetEncoding(1252)); //Read the response string t = sr.ReadToEnd(); //Close the reader, and response sr.Close(); Response.Close(); MessageBox.Show(t); CreateFile(t,"c:\\Changelog"); } private void CreateFile(string buffer,string filename) { StreamWriter outStream = new StreamWriter( filename ); outStream.Write(buffer); outStream.Close(); } Problem: The respond which I am getting does not show me the inbox of mine where I can check the number of new mails. It seems to me that it is not posting the data to a form properly. Am I doing something wrong? What should I do to "login to my inbox" and retrieve the different values from there(E.g no of new mails, Total number of mails in inbox ) ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this e-mail, or change how often it arrives, go to your E-mail Settings. http://groups.msn.com/bdotnet/_emailsettings.msnw Need help? If you've forgotten your password, please go to Passport Member Services. http://groups.msn.com/_passportredir.msnw?ppmprop=help For other questions or feedback, go to our Contact Us page. http://groups.msn.com/contact If you do not want to receive future e-mail from this MSN group, or if you received this message by mistake, please click the "Remove" link below. On the pre-addressed e-mail message that opens, simply click "Send". Your e-mail address will be deleted from this group's mailing list. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
