Internet programming Help Wanted

[Rohit]

I need some ideas on how to write a program that could

-- Read an MS Access database and grab information say Vehicle year,
vehicle make
-- Make a call to a website and enter the information grabbed earlier
-- Get the Auto premium quote
-- Store the results on the MS Access database / table.

The Websites that quote premium on web like progressive's website use
POST method to pass information from one URL to another. For example,
below are the URLs that we go through to get a quote on Progressive's
web site.

1) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/info.asp
2) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/PriorIns.asp
3) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/driver.asp
3) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/VehInfo.asp
4) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/Vehicles.Asp
5) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/AdditionalInformation.asp


Finally on URL https://buyonline2.progressive.com/RateCombo.asp, I get
the quoted premium.

I would like to automate this process and have this done
programatically. Any ideas, sample code, help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

I need some ideas on how to write a program that could

-- Read an MS Access database and grab information say Vehicle year,
vehicle make
-- Make a call to a website and enter the information grabbed earlier
-- Get the Auto premium quote
-- Store the results on the MS Access database / table.

(The below welcome text was originally written by Ben Pfaff)

Your question is outside the domain of comp.lang.c, which discusses
only the standard C programming language, including the standard C
library. This is a remarkably narrow topic compared to what many
people expect.

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[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Mar=EDa?= Mateos]

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Would it be too hard for you to modify the subject of the
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we can filter it out?

Regards.

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[Ben Pfaff]

(The below welcome text was originally written by Ben Pfaff)

[Lots of text just to say: "Off-topic in this group"]

Would it be too hard for you to modify the subject of the
message to make it say "Off-Topic disclaimer" or something like that, so
we can filter it out?

I can certainly do that for my own followups of that genre.
Can't speak for Christopher.

 

[CBFalconer]

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[Lots of text just to say: "Off-topic in this group"]

Would it be too hard for you to modify the subject of the
message to make it say "Off-Topic disclaimer" or something like
that, so we can filter it out?

Regards.

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Would it be too much to ask you to remove the PGP signature and
the general oversized sig block (exceeds 4 lines). You might also
use a real sig marker per RFC specs, so we can filter it out.

 

[Ben Pfaff]

Would it be too much to ask you to remove the PGP signature and
the general oversized sig block (exceeds 4 lines). You might also
use a real sig marker per RFC specs, so we can filter it out.

If José is unwilling, then you could just set up your newsreader
to strip the PGP signature before showing the article. I have my
newsreader set up that way and so I never even saw the PGP
signature.

 

[CBFalconer]

If José is unwilling, then you could just set up your newsreader
to strip the PGP signature before showing the article. I have my
newsreader set up that way and so I never even saw the PGP
signature.

Was I excessively subtle again?

 

[Keith Thompson]

(The below welcome text was originally written by Ben Pfaff)

[Lots of text just to say: "Off-topic in this group"]

Would it be too hard for you to modify the subject of the
message to make it say "Off-Topic disclaimer" or something like that, so
we can filter it out?

Some newsreaders use subject headers to determine threads. If you
change the subject header, some readers will see the followup as an
unrelated separate article.

 

[Christopher Benson-Manica]

I can certainly do that for my own followups of that genre.
Can't speak for Christopher.

Hey, I was just copying you

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Mar=EDa?= Mateos]

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Would it be too much to ask you to remove the PGP signature

I'm afraid yes. I think everyone should use PGP. If you don't
want to use it, it's fine, but I'll keep using it.

and the general oversized sig block (exceeds 4 lines). You might also
use a real sig marker per RFC specs, so we can filter it out.

My sig is 4 lines plus the sig marker. I know the standard sig
marker is "-- ", but when it changes to "- --" when you make a PGP
in-line signature.

As someone else pointed out, you can tune your newsreader to
hide the PGP signature if that's too annoying for you.

Regards.

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[CBFalconer]

I'm afraid yes. I think everyone should use PGP. If you don't
want to use it, it's fine, but I'll keep using it.


My sig is 4 lines plus the sig marker. I know the standard sig
marker is "-- ", but when it changes to "- --" when you make a PGP
in-line signature.

As someone else pointed out, you can tune your newsreader to
hide the PGP signature if that's too annoying for you.

Your sig is what appears at this end, and is over size. However
that is not the point. I was obviously far too subtle for you in
pointing out the pointlessness of your complaint (about off-topic
notices) by a simple comparison of nuisances. At least the
original OT notice did not contravene any RFC specifications, as
far as I can see.

I shall try to remember to use a large club in the future.