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Question about Web requests.. - Xaros - Jun 23, 2011
Hey guys, I had a few questions about web requests. I'm not completely sure to what their capabilities are. I actually have no clue, I was just wondering how would I implement them to get rid of browsers, they're quite annoying. Pretty much just wondering these things:
What all can they do?
When are they appropriate to be used.
How to implement them in place of a browser.
* - nathan72389 - Jun 23, 2011
and now you know why everyone suggest a person to actually learn the language rather than just "fucking around" with it.
* - Xaros - Jun 23, 2011
I was simply asking a question as I'm learning it. No need to be so hostile. I was asking a simple question about it, as the Book I'm using skimps on that part. :\
* - nathan72389 - Jun 23, 2011
(Jun 23, 2011 07:42 PM)Kickflip Wrote: I was simply asking a question as I'm learning it. No need to be so hostile. I was asking a simple question about it, as the Book I'm using skimps on that part. :\
sry man,... you kmow how it is... 90% off everyone here, is all... "C&P., .OMG it dont work" so forgive me if i mis-read you.
gimme till tomarrow, and i will double check ur thread, and have another look at it.
* - Bigandrewgold - Jun 23, 2011
what are your web browsers doing?
* - Xaros - Jun 23, 2011
I'm looking at browsers. I'm looking at using web requests to replace web browsers..
* - Bigandrewgold - Jun 23, 2011
(Jun 23, 2011 10:28 PM)Kickflip Wrote: I'm looking at browsers. I'm looking at using web requests to replace web browsers..
what do you mean you are looking at browsers, i am asking what does your browser, which you want to replace. currently do?
* - Xaros - Jun 23, 2011
Ah, I'm not trying to currently make something in particular. I meant I'm NOT looking at browsers, sorry. I'm just looking at how they're used to fill in information on a certain webpage. such as user, and pass etc. You understand what I'm trying to say, right?
* - Bigandrewgold - Jun 23, 2011
yeah, the best thing to do imo is use tamperdata on firefox to find out how the data is getting "POST"ed ot "GET"ed then use this function to post or get it
PHP Code
<?php
Function WRequest(URL As String, method As String, POSTdata As String)
Dim responseData As String = ""
Try
Dim request As Net.HttpWebRequest = Net.WebRequest.Create(URL)
request.Accept = "*/*"
request.AllowAutoRedirect = true
request.UserAgent = "http_requester/0.1"
request.Timeout = 60000
request.Method = method
If request.Method = "POST" Then
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
Dim encoding As New ASCIIEncoding()
Dim postByteArray() As Byte = encoding.GetBytes(POSTdata)
request.ContentLength = postByteArray.Length
Dim postStream As IO.Stream = request.GetRequestStream()
postStream.Write(postByteArray, 0, postByteArray.Length)
postStream.Close()
End If
Dim response As Net.HttpWebResponse = request.GetResponse()
If response.StatusCode = Net.HttpStatusCode.OK Then
Dim responseStream As IO.StreamReader = _
New IO.StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
responseData = responseStream.ReadToEnd()
End If
response.Close()
Catch e As Exception
responseData = "An error occurred: " & e.Message
End Try
WRequest = responseData
End Function
and call it like this
PHP Code
<?php
WRequest("http://server/login", "POST", "name=jane&stat=active")
or
PHP Code
<?php
WRequest("http://server/", "GET", "")
so this could be an example for pw and email
PHP Code
<?php
WRequest("http://www.website.com/", "POST", "email=" & email & "&password=" & password)