Sending Safe Information To The Web.

[Guest Mark Bellavance]

I am attempting to send information to the web. I have looked at the internet portal vbs. No problem there.

 

What I am trying to do is send form information, I can send it in a string like

 

www.xyz.com/script.cgi?Source=$RV[whatever1]&Source2=$RV[whatever2].

 

but is there a way to send it encoded using vb? the information is a bit sensative.

[SupportTeam]

It all depends on in what formats the web server accepts the information.

 

Can the web server accept parameter info in some encrypted format? If yes then you can then encrypt the parameters before invoking the http GET (using whatever encryption algorithm the server expects).

 

Usually secure communications with web servers is done using SSL connections - but then you'll have to set up your web server to support SSL - and you'll have to use SSL from your side as well... which gets very complicated.

[Guest Mark Bellavance]

Hmmm.

Well, that sounds like a bit more work than I'm willing, my site has an ssl cert but, my brain may not want to do all this. I was hoping there was an EASY way to basically send via IE with a Post command or something like it to https://

so more or less it would be like sending information from clicking the submit button on a form in a web page. I can send the information on my local machine to a local copy of the script and have it processed locally (thus hopefully securely), but I would rather have all the information contained in one place. Thanks for the help though.

[SupportTeam]

Thinking about it a bit more you should be able to use the "InternetExplorer.Application" object from within VBScript to do a GET or POST to a https:// address.

 

See the "Internet Portal" demo script supplied with VoiceGuide and more info on the "InternetExplorer.Application" object should be available at http://microsoft.com/scripting