Interfacing to a website? Need general guidance. [RESOLVED]

[BrianHawley]

I need to interface to a website.

One of our suppliers runs an on-line help desk. (We have no control over that code.)

I need to log-on, post data, read data etc. automatically from within our own local VB6 on MS Access help desk.

In short, I need to drive a browser in some automated fashion, with my code pressing buttons, entering/reading data etc.

So far I can get the log-in screen into the WebBrowser control and can see the raw HTML via its document property.

I know I now need to send a log-on string somehow, but I'm a bit lost. Can I do that via the WebBrowser, or do I need a Winsock? How do I determine what string to send? Trapping the data coming out of the WebBrowser control (when manually operated) should presumably show me what is needed, but how do I do that?

Am I on the right track? Is the WebBrowser control the best way to do this?

Any guidance much appreciated.