Hi Cerebrus, 1. Sorry for the code not compiling. 2. Thanks for the reply.I think you have given me a hint ,to proceed further which i will try.
Thanks Pratiksha (M) 9999774442 On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Cerebrus <[email protected]> wrote: > Pratiksha: > > 1. The code you have posted does not even compile. > > 2. We expect members to post long-ish code sections at > dotnetdevelopment.pastebin.com, so that code can be read and > understood. > > 3. What you are trying to do is known as "Scraping". The NDNC does not > expose this page as a public API / webservice to be subscribed by you, > so you have to understand how the page works. For that you have to > analyze the inner workings of the page. Since I have (too much) > experience in scraping, I was able to modify the code to successfully > scrape it in about 5 min. But I am not going to give you the code > because you will learn nothing in the process. > > I will however give you some hints: > a) You need to search for the form action (in the page source - > Javascript section) and post your data to that URL. > b) Form values are always posted as a "name=value(s)" setting. In this > case, the postData variable would be written as : > --- > string phoneToCheck = "9999774442"; > string postData = "phoneno=" + phoneToCheck; > ... > ... > --- > > HTH, > > Cerebrus. > > > > On Jul 7, 3:37 pm, Pratiksha Saxena <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I want to post data tohttp:// > ndncregistry.gov.in/ndncregistry/search.miscinWindow > > Application > > > > It checks if phone no is registered with particular website. > > > > So i wrote the following code.(*Webbrowser is not to be used -According > to > > requirement)* > > > > But it is not working.Can somebody help me. > > * > > > > private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) > > { > > string postData = "9999774442"; > > > > ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding(); > > //string postData = strId; > > > > byte[] data = encoding.GetBytes(postData); > > > > // Prepare web request... > > try > > { > > HttpWebRequest myRequest = > > (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(" > http://ndncregistry.gov.in/ndncregistry/search.misc";); > > myRequest.Method = "POST"; > > myRequest.ContentType = > "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; > > myRequest.ContentLength = data.Length; > > Stream newStream = myRequest.GetRequestStream(); > > // Send the data. > > newStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length); > > newStream.Close(); > > } > > catch (Exception ex) > > { > > } > > > > String post_response; > > HttpWebResponse objResponse = > > (HttpWebResponse)myRequest.GetResponse(); > > using (StreamReader responseStream = new > > StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream())) > > { > > post_response = responseStream.ReadToEnd(); > > responseStream.Close(); > > } > > > > } > > > > Thanks > > Pratiksha > > (M) 9999774442 > > *
