Programmatically Pressing Buttons on a Web Page

Question

There is a webpage on our intranet which resides at `http://server1/rsyncwebgui.php` which provides a quick way for us to trigger an rSync between two file shares. For uninteresting security reasons, this is the route we have to take. The web page looks like this: ``` Rsync web gui

Execute rsync between server2 and server3

Accepted Answer

Can't check in VS now, but you will end with something like this :

```
string postDataStr = string.Format("resync=true&scanscheduled=&otherpara=xyz");
byte[] postData = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postDataStr);

HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(new Uri("http://server1/rsyncwebgui.php"));
req.Method= "POST";
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
req.ContentLength = postData.Length;
using(var reqStream = req.GetRequestStream())
{
    reqStream.Write(postData, 0, postData.Length);
}

HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse )req.GetResponse();
```

Programmatically Pressing Buttons on a Web Page

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