Passing parameters to a website

Question

Well, I'm a complete stranger to this topic; I don't even know the general name of this kind of operation, but I'm going to try to explain it. (it's probably something pretty basic)

I'm trying to write a auto-form-fill application. In order to have an interface planning to use GUI on VisualStudio.

It is simply some text boxes that are similar to web site's registration form and a register button to initialize the action.

The information that the user enters in those text boxes will be sent to similar text boxes on a predetermined website's registration page. Then when I click the register button on my application, it will also click the register button on the webpage.

This is simply what I'm trying to do. How can I start? Which topics should I read up on?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

A primary way to pass a parameter to a website is known as "Query String Parameter".

The notion is that a variable can be sent into a webpage through a url.

The format is appended after your webpage:

http...yoursite.com/yourpage.html?x='value'

So the QueryString is a variable x with the value of 'value'.

?x='value'

At this point a variable of x can be available to JavaScript.

Here is a link to describe setup and usage. There are other on google that may be more specific to your environment.

Hope it helps. All the best! Nash