Logo Questions Linux Laravel Mysql Ubuntu Git Menu
 

C#: Open a browser and POST to a url from a windows desktop app

Tags:

browser

c#

post

wpf

I have a small WPF app (although I guess it doesn't really matter whether it's a wpf form or a webform app?) that I want to have launch a new browser window and POST to a specific url. I've been messing around with:

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("http://myurl.com");

to launch the window but I don't think I can use the same process to actually post to a url...I've also experimented with HttpWebRequest but I would like the user to be able to use the app after I have posted to this url, not just show them the results...What can I look at to able to do something like this?

like image 986
Paul Mignard Avatar asked Dec 14 '09 20:12

Paul Mignard


People also ask

What C is used for?

C programming language is a machine-independent programming language that is mainly used to create many types of applications and operating systems such as Windows, and other complicated programs such as the Oracle database, Git, Python interpreter, and games and is considered a programming foundation in the process of ...

Is C language easy?

C is a general-purpose language that most programmers learn before moving on to more complex languages. From Unix and Windows to Tic Tac Toe and Photoshop, several of the most commonly used applications today have been built on C. It is easy to learn because: A simple syntax with only 32 keywords.

What is the full name of C?

In the real sense it has no meaning or full form. It was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson at AT&T bell Lab. First, they used to call it as B language then later they made some improvement into it and renamed it as C and its superscript as C++ which was invented by Dr.

Is C programming hard?

C is more difficult to learn than JavaScript, but it's a valuable skill to have because most programming languages are actually implemented in C. This is because C is a “machine-level” language. So learning it will teach you how a computer works and will actually make learning new languages in the future easier.


1 Answers

There is no direct way to do it. What you could do is generate a HTML page with a form filled with the data you need to post, and a bit of javascript to post the page automatically when it is loaded. Then you just have to open that page in the browser...

The generated HTML could look like that :

<html>
<head>
<script language="Javascript">
function submitForm() {
    var theForm = document.getElementById("theForm");
    theForm.submit();
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="submitForm()">
<form id="theForm" action="http://myurl.com" method="POST">
    <input type="text" name="username" value="myusername"/>
    <input type="password" name="password" value="mypassword"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>

If the page must be displayed in your application, load it in a WebBrowser control

like image 69
Thomas Levesque Avatar answered Sep 29 '22 15:09

Thomas Levesque