Using Access to interface (get data from) the web...?

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ZenoParadox

There's gotta be a way to make Access read data from a webpage. I just
don't know how to do it.

I just want to open a datastream of any sort, to be honest. I'm just
not at all sure where to start on this. I assume there is some sort of
"Internet" object which can be opened but I don't know if that requires
additional References or ActiveX controls or what... if someone could
just point me in the right direction I'm pretty sure I can figure it
out on my own.

The end result of all of this would be an Access application which can
POST data to a PHP file and get any text responses the file would be
giving it. FollowHyperLink will allow me to POST data but it opens up
the page in IE... I don't want it to open up anything, I want it to
return the data well within VB.

Where to start.. where to start..? Herlp? Ideas?
 
Ideas, ideas, ideas? Surely there is someone out there who is more of
VBA maven than I am... ;)


Maybe I'm just not being clear. Let's just say, for the sake o
simplicity, that I want to put the contents of the fil
http://mysite.com/file.txt into a string. How would I go abou
accessing something on the web like this from within Access
 
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