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David Thielen - 30 Mar 2007 01:32 GMT

Hi;

We need to feed our data to Salesforce.com. They have given us html for a
page to put on our site that posts to their site to enter the info.

However, we need to do it programatically. I need to create the datastream
and open a connection to their server and post it.

Is there sample code somewhere that does this? It strikes me as something
needed a lot but I can't find anything.

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Steven Cheng[MSFT] - 30 Mar 2007 11:09 GMT

Hi Dave,

For your scenario, you should use the HttpWebRequest class to
programmatically post form data to the target site/page. Here are some web
articles introducing this:

#POSTing Data with ASP.NET
http://authors.aspalliance.com/stevesmith/articles/netscrape2.asp

#How to use HttpWebRequest to send POST request to another web server?
http://www.netomatix.com/HttpPostData.aspx

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David Thielen - 30 Mar 2007 21:42 GMT

Hi;

Thank you - those helped. Both examples used ASCII instead of UTF-8 and did
not encode the fields and values which are both problems depending on the
text posted. So I posted code for an example that includes that at
http://www.davidthielen.info/programming/2007/03/send_a_post_pro.html

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Steven Cheng[MSFT] - 02 Apr 2007 02:45 GMT

Nice work!

Thanks for your sharing this with us!

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

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