Hello,



Does anyone know how to populate another sites url for my personal ASP

script. For example, if I wanted to use someones search engine, I would like

to be able to specify their url e.g. http://www.searchengine.co.uk then pass

in the relevant information (this cannot be passed on the url i.e.

"?search=field" as I do not want the page to actually appear in a browser

window) then I want to be able to capture the result and display it on my

screen. This must all happen in a background session. Is this possible?



Paul.







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that works - is however quite some work. There exist an number of COM

objects which return the content of an HTML page in a string or array to you

(Check the components section on www.15seconds.com), you can parse the info

you need and display it on your web site.



The downside is you are entirely dependent on the other side not to change

the layout of their return page. If you are not too desparate, I believe

there going to be a few search engines soon, which offer web services (check

microsoft on SOAP), i.e. you get plain results. 



Cheers,

Andreas



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From: Paul Williams [mailto:asp@p...]

Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 10:28

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Subject: [asp_web_howto] Populate another site from my ASP script





Hello,



Does anyone know how to populate another sites url for my personal ASP

script. For example, if I wanted to use someones search engine, I would like

to be able to specify their url e.g. http://www.searchengine.co.uk then pass

in the relevant information (this cannot be passed on the url i.e.

"?search=field" as I do not want the page to actually appear in a browser

window) then I want to be able to capture the result and display it on my

screen. This must all happen in a background session. Is this possible?



Paul.









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Hi Paul

   On the basis of not re- inventing the wheel, have a look at

www.copernik.com - free download.



   Every time you use it (well it seems like - anyway) it downloads new

query formats - this indicates that as someone else has said, that the

query layouts are not static !!



Best Regards

Pete (Northolt UK)







> Hello,

> 

> Does anyone know how to populate another sites url for my personal ASP

> script. For example, if I wanted to use someones search engine, I would like

> to be able to specify their url e.g. http://www.searchengine.co.uk then pass

> in the relevant information (this cannot be passed on the url i.e.

> "?search=field" as I do not want the page to actually appear in a browser

> window) then I want to be able to capture the result and display it on my

> screen. This must all happen in a background session. Is this possible?

> 

> Paul.

> 

> 

> 

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