>>>The only complicated part is figuring out the names of the form variables. it can be a pain sometimes, but others it's pretty easy- If you give me the URL of the validation site you are working with, I could give it a shot for you-
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>>Well, just for kicks, let's say I want to enter "cars" in the search box on Yahoo.com... If I can do that, then I can submit an entry on any web form, correct?
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>>Thanks for your help
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>Using IE, you would do this:
>oIE = CREATEOBJECT("InternetExplorer.Application")
>oIE.Navigate("www.Yahoo.com")
>oIE.Document.Forms(0).p.Value = "Cars"
>oIE.Document.Forms(0).Submit
>?oIE.Document.Body.InnerHTML
>
>Using wwIPStuff, you would do this:
>
>oIP = CREATEOBJECT("wwIPStuff")
>oIP.HTTPConnect("www.yahoo.com")
>oIP.AddPostKey("p","cars")
>lcBuffer = ""
>lnResult = oIP.HTTPGetEx("http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search",@lcBuffer)
>?lcBuffer
>
>Note- Yahoo's search form is wierd- it doesn't look like conventional search forms- the action is not clear. The wwIPStuff method I posted gets you results, but the results are "page is not found" or something. If you have the option to use IE for something like this, I would. It also makes parsing the results easier because you can filter out the HTML tags by using the Innertext property of any HTML element, including BODY.

Thanks Erik,

BTW, how do I send a user name and password to a secure site using the oIE.Navigate function?

TIA