ASP.NET screen scrape after form submittal?

[Rob Lauer]

I have written two completely separate web applications that cannot
talk directly to one another (applications "A" and "B"). Application
"A" has a form that takes some input (radio buttons, whatever) and
when that form is submitted via a POST, I get back some data. Simple
enough.

The trick is that I need to write a web service on application "B"
that will post data to that same form and then do a screen scrape of
the results returned. I know how to do the screen scrape easily enough
of a static page with asp.net...but I can't figure out how to use
asp.net to write a web service to "fake" a post to a page and grab the
returned data.

I hope this makes sense and that someone has an idea! Thanks.

 

[Alvin Bruney]

You will need to implement the webservice behavior to enable you to grab
data from the client and talk to the server. Here's a link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/webservice/overview.asp

 

[Chris Jackson]

You can use the System.Net.WebClient class to do exactly that.