OK, I seem to have run into a brick wall. I need my Opal code to open up
a webpage via a POST, and then display the resulting page.

My current webpage is pretty simple: a list of address fields to trigger
Google Maps. I can't use GET because the clients aren't limited to the
number
of addresses they can enter to get a route returned, and I'd run into the
URL length limit.

I don't get it, if the clients are going to enter these addesses, why can't
the clients submit the form, thereby triggering the post?

Liz,

I don't get it, if the clients are going to enter these addesses, why can't
the clients submit the form, thereby triggering the post?

The addresses come from the database. They enter a trip into my Pdox app,
then want to push 1 button to get a route for all the stops. They're not
dealing with the web page directly until the route is shown.

Thanks,
Jim Moseley

Tony McGuire wrote:

By the way, I do [did] the Google Maps stuff with Paradox 9. Maybe you
are getting in deeper than I did, but I don't remember any SAFEARRAY
having to be created/designed. Certainly it didn't block me, although
the maps did take several hours to get running. Very cool 4th party
tool (4th?)





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Tony McGuire
http://www.homebookexchange.com

But you did it on a web site - where the web OCX was processing the
request. He's trying to do it in the MS Browser OCX. At least, I think

that's the case...

OK, I seem to have run into a brick wall. I need my Opal code to open up
a webpage via a POST, and then display the resulting page.

I can issue a POST in the background and capture the results, using
MSXML's
xmlHTTP functions.

I can display a webpage several different ways, using Tony's MSBrowser &
via startBrowser, and via shellExecute.

I can even capture a webpage in the background via GET using Lorrin
Moore's
grabIt library.

But, I can't figure out how to do both at the same time. Tony's MSBrowser
looked promising, but I need a SAFEARRAY data structure for the Navigate2
method to trigger the POSTdata, and that is out of my league.

My current webpage is pretty simple: a list of address fields to trigger
Google Maps. I can't use GET because the clients aren't limited to the
number
of addresses they can enter to get a route returned, and I'd run into the
URL length limit.

BTW, there are thousands of clients that will use this code, via Runtime
9.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Jim Moseley

But you did it on a web site - where the web OCX was processing the
request. He's trying to do it in the MS Browser OCX. At least, I think
that's the case...

Liz

I do both; websrv and simple web browser for generic client usage.

Tony McGuire <png.paradoaxcommunity at (no spam) com> wrote:

I do both; websrv and simple web browser for generic client usage.

Do you invoke a POST and display the resultant webpage? I'm pretty stuck
here.

I tried earlier today to use MSXML to do a POST of my regular html page,
and got a nasty error ('405 Method not allowed') on the POST. I can GET
the page fine with the same code (shown below), but can't POST. I can use
IE directly and GET & POST at will, but the MSXML logic won't POST.