Simulating a program like Outlook express for a Online Store

Question

Hi all,
I want to create a program that should read all the information come to me on a website using my user name and password. Some times i need to edit or add information on the site. The website will have sessions and cookies enabled. I don't know how to do it. Any help in any application is greatly appreciated.
I have a new project assigned to me. That is for my inhouse needs, I need to update the data in a site . This site will give a username and password to all the members. We are one of the members. But we have to simulate a tool to update the products in their site.
It will be something like outlook express but not a mailing interface.
Let me explain outlook first. Out look is getting the username and password from the user and then logs in into the users account in the website (yahoo or hotmail anything). And then they are going to the mail section and taking the mails if there were any. Same thing for composing a mail.
But I am not considered with mails. Here the data is like product information. They may already be there, or they may be new items. I will have to keep a local database here and to synchronize this database with the website.

Answer 1

Hi again.
Well, your headed for a lot of trouble. I sugest you try to find and HTTP library and and HTML parsing library.
If HTTP library should allow you to make the request and the HTML parsing to save the trouble of writing a parser. But you will need to know wher to find in the parsed structure the data you need. This is the problem.
The Swing package contains an HTML parsing system: check the package javax.swing.text.html adn javax.swing.text.html.parser. Maybe these will do for the parsing and the Gets, the post I don't know...
The experience I have with this was in building a small web server, not a client :-)
Hope this helps,
Nuno