>>How do you "read the PostData parameter"? Do you have a VFP object that is getting passed the PostData? What object has the beforenavigate2 event? If you have a VFP object whose BeforeNavigate2 method is being called with the safearray PostData, it's a trivial exercise to turn that into a string.
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>>The VB code is just walking an array of bytes and building a string.
>>*-- Assuming PostData is an array of bytes
>>cStr = ''
>>FOR nInc = 1 to ALEN(PostData)
>> cStr = cStr + CHR(PostData[nInc])
>>ENDFOR
>>MESSAGEBOX(cStr)
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>>Since it sounds like you have a web brower control, I'd try creating a class with a method that can be bound to the web browser's ctrlWB_BeforeNavigate2 event with EventBinding to catch the PostData parameter.
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>>Gary
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>Thanks for all your help!
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>I am using the webbrowser control. Things have gotten far more confusing in the past few hours. The beforenavigate2 event is supposed to fire automatically. What I should say is it fire sporadically. It seems now that it may not be the event I can rely on for this project. When I post form data 50% of the time the event simply doesn't fire. It never seems to fires if the form post is back to the same page which is a frequent setup on many web sites. Yet the event fires every single time if you use links for navigation and 90% of the time for "GET" forms.
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>Right now I'm as confused how to proceed from here as I have been on any project in the past 5 years. I guess the only upside is that at least it's not a DOT NET app. Apparantly the webbrowser control events are even more screwed up if your hosting the control in a DOT NET app.
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>Hopefully I'll stumble across a way to make this work soon. I'm starting to seriously consider using an ASP page as a proxy. In other words, I will parse out the action and replace the real website with an ASP page that grabs up the form post data, save it to a table using ODBC and then redirect to the real page. God I hope I don't have to go there!
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>Thanks again for your help. Hopefully I'll have some intelligent questions to ask in my next post! OR even better some intelligent answers!

Oh man, that sounds like a bear to deal with. It's a shame when controls, events, etc. are erratic and what should be simple and just work, doesn't. For me, it's worse when something *almost* works. I'll spend a ton of time trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong before deciding the thing is broken and can't be fixed!

Hope it all works out for you.

Gary