You may want to find out if the website you are targeting offers Webservices.
Greg -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cerebrus Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:30 AM To: DotNetDevelopment, VB.NET, C# .NET, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, XML, XML Web Services,.NET Remoting Subject: [DotNetDevelopment] Re: Can my asp.net page fill in a form in another website? I can do this... it's called Web scraping. ;-) One doesn't have to *fill* out the target form, just submit form values to the target URL to mimic the way HTTP works. On Aug 31, 1:10 pm, Jamie Fraser <[email protected]> wrote: > You could do it using Javascript. ASP.Net is a server side technology > however, so on its own is not suitable for this task. > > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 7:58 PM, neuromancer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Suppose I want to make a asp.net application that fills out a form, > > perhaps an amtrak form. First the user might say on my form (not the > > Amtrak form) that he wants to go to Tuscaloosa, and he hits submit, > > and I open up the Amtrak website, fill it the appropriate fields, make > > the submit button click on, and then I get the resulting URL so I can > > use it in my asp.net application. > > I'm pretty sure this is completely impossible, but a friend of mine > > asked me to do something like this for him, and I'm just checking. > > FN- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
