>>>>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-
>>>
>>>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?
>>>
>>>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

Do you mean form fields, or the Authentication box?

The form fields are just like any other form field, but I don't know how to fill out an Authentication box- this function is on the OS level, not really the browser level. You might want to post this at Rick's site.