Yes, I think you are on the right track.

You might want to check this article
http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/dotnetWebRequest/dotnetWebRequest.htm

I used this information once to upload a file to a site by emulating what happens when you visit the site and hit submit.


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>I need to automate looking up a driver's licence. A person can do it on a website, but the website doesn't allow for an easy way in. Yuri gave me a nifty FoxPro way to do it, but I need to figure out the ASP.NET / C# way to do it and I'm stuck.
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>The manual steps are that a user goes to https://fortress.wa.gov/dol/ddl/dsd/Default.asp and clicks on a button that runs jscript: navigate('login',0). Which redirects to https://fortress.wa.gov/dol/ddl/dsd/Main2.asp. There is an text input control to enter the license #, and a button. This buttons runs javascript: navigate('F','0').
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>I've heard back from the State who, no surprise, said, essentially, "good luck."
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>I've been reading about and looking at samples for the HTTPWebRequest and HTTPWebResponse classes. My question is at least, am I looking in the right place? TIA.