Xmlhttprequest Issues

[Kerberos]

EDIT: Solved the problem a totally different way. All's well :)

I'm writing a program in VB.NET that uses basic page scraping and authentication to get some information from a web site. Normally you would log in to the site using your browser and it would display some info on the page, but I'm trying to obtain this information programatically. The problem I've run into is that a lot of the information that is displayed is obtained using JQuery and AJAX. I can log in and authenticate perfectly fine using the HTTPWebRequest class, but I can't figure out how to, nor can I find anywhere that will help me figure out how to format and send an XMLHTTPRequest using either a VB.NET class specifically for it, or using the functionality of the HTTPWebRequest class.

Basically, I've got a request that looks like this:

$('lyr_friend').innerHTML = jQuery.ajax({type:"GET", url:"/some/place", data:{gameUid:"189345",charID:"9153",serverID:"4",charStatus:"true"}, async:false}).responseText;

I need to figure out how to make that request in VB.NET. Obviously I can't use POST data (which is how I log in and obtain a session cookie) because it uses GET as the method, right? So how do I pass this data along with the request? I'm going to try using a StreamWriter, but I doubt it will work, even if simply because I don't know how to format the data.

Anybody know anything that could help me out? Thanks in advance :)

Edited May 5, 2010 by Kerberos

[Strife25]

XmlHttpRequest objects function the same exact way as any normal HTTP request does. Your problem is not with the difference between XHR and HTTP Requests, it relates to the actual request itself.

The problem you are hitting is how exactly does data get passed in GET Request to a server as opposed to a POST.

There is a big difference between the two:

GET Requests:

-request parameters are sent inside of the request URI as a key-value pair after the query symbol (?), e.g. /resource?foo=bar

POST Requests:

-request parameters are sent in the body of the HTTP request (which the OP learned how to do in VB). In Java (the language I am most familiar with), the "request body" is sent in an HTTP Request as an "Entity" object, most often a StringEntity.