Send data to Internet

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Paul

Hi guys

Is there any way to submit an Access form directly to an Internet page. The
idea behind it is that the form gets submitted by "post" method from an
office computer. The web page gathers all the info from the form and
processes it into another database that is running online.

Thanx in advance
 
Paul said:
Hi guys

Is there any way to submit an Access form directly to an Internet page. The
idea behind it is that the form gets submitted by "post" method from an
office computer. The web page gathers all the info from the form and
processes it into another database that is running online.
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You need a program or service running on the web server that can process
the POST request. I use a Java servlet for this. My Access app uses the
MSXML.DLL library to send the POST request including an XML stream (or a
URL encoded stream) to the URL that identifies my Java servlet. The
servlet takes in the stream and communicates with the database (SQL Server
or AS400 in this case) and then returns another stream of text as a
response.
 
Hi Rick

I am trying to submit the info on the page to an asp page on the server that
will process the information.

The only way I have found of doing this is to have a hidden HTML form with a
field for each field in my data access page. I then populate each field and
post the form to the internet when a user presses the button.

What I really want is to remove my hidden HTML form, and send the info from
the data access page (by sort of submitting the whole page). Can this be
done?

Cheers

Paul
 
Paul said:
Hi Rick

I am trying to submit the info on the page to an asp page on the server that
will process the information.

The only way I have found of doing this is to have a hidden HTML form with a
field for each field in my data access page. I then populate each field and
post the form to the internet when a user presses the button.

What I really want is to remove my hidden HTML form, and send the info from
the data access page (by sort of submitting the whole page). Can this be
done?
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Your HTML form is likely sending an HTTPRequest POST. You can use the
MSXML.DLL to issue the same HTTPRequest and then I would think the HTML
form could be eliminated.
 
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