Interfacing VB with CGI scripts

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Jul 17th, 2001, 05:48 PM
elpower

Interfacing VB with CGI scripts

Hi Guys,

I am looking for a way to send messages to a web server running CGI/ PERL scripts.

instead of using my web browser to go to the website and enter my information.

I would like to do this in VB6.0

Is there a way to do this?
Example:

<html>
using the form post method >
<html>
<form action="cgi-bin/post.cgi" method="post">
<input name="phonenumber" type="text" size=10>
<input name="sms" type="text" size=30>

</form>
</HTML>

click on the submit button and info is posted to the server.

I am sure using Winsock this can be achieved.

please let me know your findings.

Thanks in advance.
Elpower
Jul 3rd, 2002, 01:20 PM
groovi

hi how to to this in vb.net?

the same i try too

i want with vb.net to "fill out" a form and send the values with POST back to the server.

but how?
Jul 3rd, 2002, 02:17 PM
JoshT

For the POST HTTP verb, you set the Content-length HTTP header to the size of the data you're going to send, then put the same name/value string you'd add to the URL for a GET verb after the double CRLF that ends the HTTP headers. There's RFCs that'll explain this better than I can.
Jul 4th, 2002, 09:05 AM
brenaaro

Tutorial?

Hmm..where can I get these RFCs?
Or, where can I get a "Beginners Tutorial" on how to do this kind of stuff? I'm really interested in learning this so if you know of a good tutorial please let me know.