[DUG] POST from a Delphi win32 app

[David Moorhouse]

Hi Steven

Sounds like the perfect job for the Indy IdHTTP component.

Just call its POST method and the html content will be returned as a string
which you can parse to extract what you need.

HTH

D




On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:31:20 +1300, you wrote:

>
>  Hi all,
>           I need pointing in the right direction please. 
>
>I have a Delphi 2006 win32 application and I want to make it open a web page in a browser. 
>
>I have done similar things before using shellexecute to open a web browser or the TWebBrowser component but 
>this time I want the page to receive some information in some hidden fields. Like I pressed a button on a form that caused a POST action.
>
>What should I be looking for to make this happen?
>
>Thanks
>Steven Knight 
>
>
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