From: Bilbo <allt@...>
Date: 2003-04-20T10:00:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32OLE help

In article <3EA01D2E.7412.18CD4BB@localhost>, walter@mwsewall.com 
says...
> 
> Can someone point me to some more information on using Win32OLE.  I 
> have looked for several hours and can't seem to find what should be 
> an obvious answer.  I should mention that I have never used OLE 
> before.
> 
> What I want to do is launch InternetExplorer in such a way that it 
> will open the same window if called more than once and the command is 
> a Post command.
> 
> it is very easy to do a GET in a new IE window such as the following:
> 
> require 'win32ole'
> ie = WIN32OLE.new('InternetExplorer.Application')
> ie.visible = true
> ie.navigate('http://url?field=data&field2=data2') 
> 
> The OLE docs state that navigate will take optional parameters that 
> are of type VARIANT.  One is used to name the window, another is used 
> to set the Post Data.  The problem is I just do not know how to set 
> them.  It seems so trivial, and yet I am just missing something.
> 
> Any insight into this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> Walt
> 
> *****************************************************
> Walter Szewelanczyk
> IS Director
> M.W. Sewall & CO.        email : walter@mwsewall.com     
> 259 Front St.            Phone : (207) 442-7994 x 128
> Bath, ME 04530           Fax   : (207) 443-6284
> *****************************************************
> 
> 
> 
===================================================================
THIS SAMPLE DOES NOT WORK BUT IT Should BE CLOSE.
As I am a Ruby newbie this is the best I can do.
This wworks in VB.   Murray

# Postdata sample

require 'win32ole'
heading     = "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n"
url         = "http://www.tyzo.com/cgi-bin/hotels.cgi" 
postData    = "Start=0&Count=None&City=&Country=No&State="
postData    +=  'Hawaii'
frame       = ""
zero        = 0
puts postData
puts heading
puts url

 ie = WIN32OLE.new('InternetExplorer.Application')
 ie.visible = true
 ie.toolbar = false
 ie.statusbar = false
 ie.navigate(url,zero,frame,postData,heading) 
================================================================