Creating a bot/app to post to pages that are authenticated.

[KeyserSoze]

Hello,

I work for a company that has some webpages. I want to test out certain pages, and see what it returns to the users. We have other bots that are already hitting our site constantly, and returning errors internally. Some of these pages first require authentication. So, when I try to send some data to the page, it sends back the page that says "blah, blah, blah...you must be authenticated with cookies enabled." How would I create an app that "uses" my cookies in IE and then attempts to check the site.

Any ideas or links that would throw me in the right direction?

Thanks.



KS

 

[KB]

I belive tools like whatsup gold can monitor websites that need authentication. No coding needed.

If you want to write your own app, you have to choose your technology. Doing it in .net wouldn't be too difficult using the HTTPWebRequest class: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest(VS.80).aspx

You could also do this with vbscript and OLE automation using IE http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau...e/ifaces/iwebbrowser2/iwebbrowser2.asp

both of these would require you to be a pretty good programmer to start.

 

[KeyserSoze]

Originally posted by: KB
I belive tools like whatsup gold can monitor websites that need authentication. No coding needed.

If you want to write your own app, you have to choose your technology. Doing it in .net wouldn't be too difficult using the HTTPWebRequest class: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest(VS.80).aspx

You could also do this with vbscript and OLE automation using IE http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau...e/ifaces/iwebbrowser2/iwebbrowser2.asp

both of these would require you to be a pretty good programmer to start.

Thanks for the response. Our entire environment is .net, and I have used that class for similar projects, as well as this one. I will investigate.

Thanks again!




KS