Registering on website through vb6?

[danw8]

Could someone tell me how to write a program that can register on for example gmail.com?
I don't have any idea how to "send" the informations(login, password etc) to webpage.
Examples welcomed.

Regards,
danw8

[Phil Weber]

If you View Source on the Gmail sign-up page, you'll see that there's an HTML form tag:

<form action="/accounts/NewAccount?service=mail&amp;continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2Fe-11-10afb30378f385d8e79e062cee3db81e-c5a2b837c22444759c1a72ae4e2c1e401ad42f3b&amp;type=2" id="gaia_langform" method="POST">

Within the form, there is a series of <input> tags:

<input type="hidden" name="type" value="2">
<input type="text" name="FirstName" value="" id="FirstName" size="30">
<input type="text" name="LastName" value="" id="LastName" size="30">

The key to submitting the form programmatically is to send an HTTP POST request to the URL in the "action" attribute of the form tag. The post must contain values for each of the <input> elements within the form. For more information, see this article: http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/3272/1/

Many sites include features to make automated registration difficult or impossible. Gmail, for example, asks the user to type the value of a randomly-generated image containing some distorted text. I don't know of any way to decode that image from a VB app.

[Hack]

Could someone tell me how to write a program that can register on for example gmail.com?
I don't have any idea how to "send" the informations(login, password etc) to webpage.
Examples welcomed.

Regards,
danw8

Welcome to DevX

May I ask why you want to do this?

As indicated by Phil Weber, many websites go to great lengths to prevent this sort of thing from happening as, typically, this is how spammers register on web sites.

[danw8]

Hello
Thank you for your replys.

I totally forgot about the image verification... nevermind, it's not possible to do for me then.
My friend was looking for a programmer who can do thing like this. I don't think it's for spamming purposes.

But if I wanted to register (no image verification) how would I do that? Just to learn Examples are welcomed.

[Phil Weber]

See the article at the link in my reply above.

[twistedscrew]

Hi there, just seen this message and thought that the following may be helpful. Took forever to find out that i needed to use the "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" parameter.
Hope that helps :-)
Stefan

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim strURL As String
Dim strFormData As String
strURL = "http://ws22_stefan/JanTest/WriteStub.asp"
strFormData = "1=1234567890&2=1234567890&3=1234567890&4=1234567890&5=1234567890&6=1234567890&7=123456789 0&8=1234567890&9=1234567890&10=1234567890&11=1234567890&12=1234567890&13=1234567890&14=123 4567890&15=1234567890&16=1234567890&17=1234567890&18=1234567890&19=1234567890&20=123456789 0"
Inet1.Execute strURL, "POST", strFormData, "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
End Sub

[Hack]

That isn't going to do any good if the web site has rules in place blocking automated registration.