How do you grap a captcha using Httpwebrequest? Is that even possible?

Was wondering how you can dowload a captcha into a picture box using the httpwebrequest method?

I have my bot up and running and I can download captcha's off the site and into a picture fine using the web browser control but damn that's so slow so I am going to try registering accounts using httpwebrequest instead.

Can Httpwebrequest download images like captcha's or will it HAVE to be done using a web browser control?

Was thinking about creating a plug-in for a decaptcha service but I'm a cheap skate so for now I will be solving them manually until I have my OCR class built.

But any ideas on the method for downloading a captcha to a picture box on a form?

Thanks

It is possible, but very hard to find on google... but you CAN find it... I did

I recommend you to gain some knowledge about http requests (If you do not already have) and then download Wireshark. With wireshark you can monitor your traffic and look into the packages, than you can simulate the exact same requests.

Captcha sniper catches captchas and solves them by intercepting ports and http requests that decaptcher.com uses and solves captchas for free with inbuilt OCR.

Which one request you get the page source. Parse the code to locate the link to the captcha image. Make a request to fetch the image. Solve it. Submit solution.

For the above to work you need to have a mechanism to store and use cookies (or the captcha validation will always fail)