Dixie... You are being a little too vague and not providing enough information for us to really help you. I believe what you are wanting to do is "doable" but we need more detailed information.
For example, is the external site a .NET site or something else? Such a distinction is important because if it is a .NET site (for example) then you have to be concerned with the things like viewstate, etc. I have done this recently, and am also doing it now for a current project, so if you want to share additional details and get help, I can certainly try to help if you want to e-mail me or something. This is not very straight-forward, and it is also not really a recommended way of developing solutions due to the dependencies inherent to the approach. For starters... 1) Get Fiddler & learn some about it: http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/ 2) Look into the System.Net namespace (if you're dealing with .NET) : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.aspx [specifically HttpWebRequest, WebResponse, as well as System.IO.StreamReader] Hope this helps some! On Dec 28, 2:57 pm, Dixie Normous <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Cerebrus!! > > Ok, say you have a page where you search for a Customer. It's got > radio buttons where you choose what search criteria to use; for > example, one might let you search by First and Last Name, another > might let you search by Address, yet another by an AccountNumber. > > To automate this, I'd want to be able to identify the controls I need > to manipulate to choose the search method, and then be able to input > the search criteria accordingly. So if I choose the AccountNumber > search method, I'd want to be able to take some value stored elsewhere > in my code and input that into the AccountNumber field, then > programmatically hit the Search button and let the site do its work. > Then, when the search has been completed, I'd need to be able to grab > the result set, if any, and do whatever else I need to with it. > > On Dec 28, 9:58 am, Cerebrus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have done this sort of thing pretty effectively in the past. It's > > all about understanding how pages post data and the technology (ASP/ > > ASP.NET/JSP/PHP...) those pages use to validate or process that > > submitted data. > > > If you have a specific issue, I'd be most happy to help out.
