[solarissf]

Hello All,

I'm using c# winform. Using webbrowser.control I have logged into a website and navigated around to a particular section. Now I get to the part where I want to upload a file. I am able to "HIT" the UPLOAD button on this website, and the BROWSE button. A normal FileUpload box pops up...
any idea how I can enter in the path and filename into the box, and hit OK all using code?

I hope I am explaining clear... the pop up window is in front of me, now I want to select the file in code.

Thanks in advance!!

[Skydiver]

If you know the URL the file gets posted to, you don't even need to play with the WebBrowserControl. You can use HttpWebRequest.

Here's a few answers to a question about how to do the upload: http://stackoverflow...ipart-form-data

[solarissf]

Thanks for helping, how can I find the URL the file gets posted to?

[JackOfAllTrades]

Look in the HTML source for the form's action

[solarissf]

I've attached the source code. I'm guessing when the user manually hits loadbutton, it launches the function FileUpload1_Click. Sorry for the lame questions but as you can see I'm really new to this. Do you see the URL anywhere on here? It also seems to have some type of validator to check data is in proper format. Am I still on the correct path here?

[Skydiver]

Sorry, attachment seems to be missing.

[solarissf]

hopefully this works

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[Skydiver]

Ack... I was hoping that source.htm was the actual source of the page, not an HTML rendering of the source of the page.

Anyway, look for the <form> element that encapsulates <input type="file">. The action attribute of the <form> element should contain the URL.

[solarissf]

I'm completely lost looking for the correct form. How do I show you the actual source of the page to make this easier?

[solarissf]

just so you have the big picture. The window I currently have is in my webbrowser.control, and it is a file upload screen. So if I were to hit the LOADTRADES BUTTON, it comes back with a popup, that says, "are you sure", then I hit YES. And it uploads to server

[Skydiver]

solarissf, on 20 July 2012 - 08:47 AM, said:

I'm completely lost looking for the correct form. How do I show you the actual source of the page to make this easier?

My problem exactly. In the end, I just opened the .htm file in an isolated VM just in case the .htm file has "cooties".

[solarissf]

sorry... say what?

[Skydiver]

solarissf, on 20 July 2012 - 08:54 AM, said:

just so you have the big picture. The window I currently have is in my webbrowser.control, and it is a file upload screen. So if I were to hit the LOADTRADES BUTTON, it comes back with a popup, that says, "are you sure", then I hit YES. And it uploads to server

Based on what I saw on the .htm, it's just a Javascript validator that brings up that prompt. They don't actually do any AJAX upload of files, so it follows the standard web semantics for file uploads using an <input type="file" ...>. That means it uses the URL from the <form> element. http://wwww.w3school...s/tag_input.asp

Here is the form line:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="FileLoad.aspx?COMPANYNAME=ALL+KEYED+DATA&amp;USERID=X152169" onsubmit="javascript:return WebForm_onsubmit();" id="form1" enctype="multipart/form-data">

This post has been edited by Skydiver: 20 July 2012 - 09:07 AM

[solarissf]

so that means the URL is
FileLoad.aspx?COMPANYNAME=ALL+KEYED+DATA&amp;USERID=X152169
?

And I try and use that in HttpWebRequest?
http://stackoverflow...ipart-form-data

[Skydiver]

You'll have to prepend the URL on which the form is on.

You'll also have to unencode that "&amp;".

Something like:

http://makemerichovernight.com/FileLoad.aspx?COMPANYNAME=ALL+KEYED+DATA&USERID=X152169

This post has been edited by Skydiver: 20 July 2012 - 09:48 AM