Using Access to interface (get data from) the web...?

[ZenoParadox]

There's gotta be a way to make Access read data from a webpage. I just
don't know how to do it.

I just want to open a datastream of any sort, to be honest. I'm just
not at all sure where to start on this. I assume there is some sort of
"Internet" object which can be opened but I don't know if that requires
additional References or ActiveX controls or what... if someone could
just point me in the right direction I'm pretty sure I can figure it
out on my own.

The end result of all of this would be an Access application which can
POST data to a PHP file and get any text responses the file would be
giving it. FollowHyperLink will allow me to POST data but it opens up
the page in IE... I don't want it to open up anything, I want it to
return the data well within VB.

Where to start.. where to start..? Herlp? Ideas?

 

[ZenoParadox]

Ideas, ideas, ideas? Surely there is someone out there who is more of
VBA maven than I am...


Maybe I'm just not being clear. Let's just say, for the sake o
simplicity, that I want to put the contents of the fil
http://mysite.com/file.txt into a string. How would I go abou
accessing something on the web like this from within Access

 

[ZenoParadox]

Oh, nevermind, I figured it out on my own after all. What you use to do
things like this is the *Internet Transfer Control*. Details available
here: http://www.vbip.com/itc/default.asp