Submitting a <form> using VB or VBScript

[Shaba]

Hello all,

I was just wondering how and if its possible
to submit a <form> programatically using VB
or a "stand-alone" VBScript.

Is there any way to create a "document"
object outside a web browser (HTML Document)?
Something like ...

Set form = CreateObject("Document.Form")
form.username.Value = "username"
form.password.Value = "password"
form.Method = "POST"
form.Action = "http://www.name.com/login"
form.Submit

Thanks in advance!
/Shaba

[Michael Harris (MVP)]

Here's a working VBScript example (easily ported to VB)...

set http = createobject("msxml2.xmlhttp")
'
' pre-XML 3.0, use "msxml.xmlhttp" as the progid...
'
' if server side use:
'
'==> set http = createobject("msxml2.serverxmlhttp")
'
' which requires XML 3.0 or higher...
'
url = "http://localhost/test/enumform.asp"
foo = "this is foo"
bar = "this/is/bar"
sFormData = _
"foo=" & escape(foo) _
& "&bar=" & escape(bar)
http.open "POST",url,false
http.setRequestHeader "Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
http.send sFormData
msgbox http.responseText

====enumform.asp====
<%
set f = request.form
for each v in f
response.write v & "=" & f.item(v) & "<br>" & vbcrlf
next
%>

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