Logging in with TIdHTTP

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From: Tom Byars
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:44

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I was using the following to fetch html from a site

MyIdHTTP->Get("http://www.racingpost.co.uk/horses/card_meeting.sd?crs=CUR&r_date=2007-7-1");

which worked fine until the site required a login, after which I received a 
'302 Found' exception.

I've tried setting the IdHTTP Request properties

Password=MyPassword;
and
UserID=MyUserID;
but this makes no difference.

On setting the HandleRedirection property to true I find that the text 
returned is for the sites login / register web page. Opening an IE window 
and manually logging in doesn't help. Is there a way of logging in using 
TIdHTTP? If not, is there a way of finding where the web site is looking for 
the cookies so I can put these in place programatically.

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