internet form box submission

How does one get a VB app to fill out an internet form? That is, I want, as an example, to have my program log onto eBay and tell eBay my userID and password so that I can establish a session that will let me get at information from eBay that you can only get if you are logged on?

I can suck down eBay pages with no problem, but unless my session is logged on, some information is not present in the HTML pages that get built by the server.

I tried planet source code and somewhat to my surprize couldn't find anything.

I'm not sure if this is possible (from what i make of ur question).

Don't eBay use SSL?

i'm not sure if this would make a difference!

for hacking reasons, as mentioned above SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is protecting there pages with encryption, so i very much doubt you can do what you want.

Of course i may be wrong, but with security issues, its likely im not

Maybe you can use Robo Form in someway.

http://www.roboform.com/?affid=lksmr

no, the eBay login page is not an SSL page and besides, I'm looking for a generic solution for filling out page queries programatically --- I just used eBay as an example.

So ... any suggestions?

Thanks,