Using sockets to sign into website - or registering for website - Need example

Sockets - anyone know of an example of logging into a website?
I am looking to move up in my programming skills (fingers crossed-god willing) and I'm just looking for an example of logging into a website using socket programming.

I can achieve this using the Web browser component and webrequest but with me I like to know every option when I do things so I just looking for a basic example of showing me how to log into a website from the client side.

I tried using the forum search for sockets log in but it didn't return any results.

Also it can be an example of working with web forms from the client side.

With webbrowser I can do this by element and webrequest with the POST method but I'm not sure who this works with sockets.

Thanks guys.

Chris

Man did you search this forum for socket programming. I had seen a very elaborate socket programming thread here made a few months back by a member to demo how senukeX login and register on sites.

Please try on stackoverflow instead, you won't find anything here.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ebrequest.aspx

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Oh okay gotcha...damn I feel like a jackass now. So HttpWebRequest IS socket programming. Not sure why I didn't get that from reading. I was thinking there needed to be some sort of listener/port thing going on there.

Thanks jazzc. One up for you my friend.

I had seen a very elaborate socket programming thread here made a few months back by a member to demo how senukeX login and register on sites.

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Cool beans. I mixed up my def of sockets/httpwebrequest. I will search for that tutorial. You guys have your sh#t together here sir.

Please try on stackoverflow instead, you won't find anything here.

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Thanks for the heads up. I will try over there here after searching for the tutorial. StackOverflow is a great place for quick questions. One up for you too my friend.

Thanks guys.

For anyone else that might be looking for a quick ref on sockets and how they work. I found this online slide show that walks you through each step of what is what in the socket programming world.

http://www.slideshare.net/jignesh/socket-programming-tutorial

No, is is not socket programming. The reason I pointed you there is because you do not need actual socket programming. If you go that way, you 'll have to re-implement everything from scratch just to make an http connection - which is a huge task and it 's already done correctly by other for us to use. I assume you don't want that, but you actually want an easy and efficient way to talk to a web server

MSDN will be your best friend for this. they have some code examples down the page a ways.

if you google things along the lines of "system.net.sockets vb.net post example" you will come up with plenty more good stuff.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.sockets.socket.aspx