Reading a POSTDATA File

I'm making a Website that has a submittal form. I want to develop some client-side processing for the POSTDATA file. First off, is there a way to read Outlook's work space and get to the data without opening up Outlook and saving the attachment as a file or clipboarding it and doing manual processing? Or, does VB have the means to shell Outlook and use it to process the data?

I figure I will have to write a routine to parse the data and take out all the pluses and ampersands and (likely) put it in a DB table or Word table. I haven't run across any background info in this area, and it seems to me I might be reinventing the wheel here. I mean, the data comes to the client machine with all those pluses and ampersands and equals for a reason, right? Are there standard ways for dealing with this that I just haven't heard of? I need a clue here.

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