Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about building a software
application that could interact with a remote web server by way of IE6?  The
application that I need to build will be required to

1.) Monitor a real-time display of 10 to 50 numbers on IE6 that is provided
by a source whose URL is, say, Link-x.

2.) When a certain set of numbers is displayed on the real-time display the
application initiates a process that creates a different IE6 instance that
connects with the remote web server at, say, Link-y.

3.) Provides the user name and password to the remote web server at Link-y.

4.) Navigates to the desired web page on the remote web server at Link-y.

5.) Automatically fills out a multi-page form and then submits it on the
remote web server at Link-y.

6.) Logs out of the remote web server at Link-y and then

6.) Closes the IE6 instance that was connected to the remote web server at
Link-y.

Could Visual Basic for Applications or just Visual Basic do this?  Are
there any good examples out there that I could study?

When you say real-time, my knee-jerk reaction is that they've
used a Java-applet or Flash. If so is the case, I see no way
you can do it.

If, on the other hand, it is based on DHTML as either push or pull,
it is doable.

The main part then, is to parse the html at regular intervals
until you have all the numbers you need.

Concerning the form filling, DOM (Document Object Model) is your
friend.

In all this, don't try to control external instances of IE6. Use
the buildt-in webBrowser control that comes with VB.

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Dag.