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"Tom Byars" <tam118118@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:46878587@newsgroups.borland.com...

> 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.

The website expects you to POST an input form containing your
username/password.  You can do that very easily using a TStringList
with the TIdHTTP::Post() method, ie:

    TStringList *Fields = new TStringList;
    try
    {
        Fields->Values["in_un"] = "username";
        Fields->Values["in_pw"] = "password";

IdHTTP1.Post("https://reg.racingpost.co.uk/cde/login_iframe.sd",
Fields);
    }
    __finally
    {
        delete Fields;
    }

If successful, then your original Get() should work.  Something else
to keep in mind - the above URL is a secure page, so make sure that
you have an SSL-enabled IOHandler attached to the TIdHTTP beforehand.


Gambit