[AccessD] Automating file downloads from the Web

If you can get to all the screens via a url encoded like 
www.bankofa.com?myaccnt=78&mypass=88&mystatemen=true
then you can do easily through xmlhttp or winhhtp by reading html 
source, I hope they are using https.
If they have higher security ASP Redir then it would be difficult. Did 
you ask if they have a webservice for this.
One IT group may not know what the other is doing. BofA sure has 
webservices hooked to SWIFT.

Hale, Jim wrote:

>I have created an Access database that parses Bank of America credit card
>Merchant statements. I manually download individual merchant statements from
>B of A's web site and process them with Access. All this works wonderfully
>well. The problem is we have 158 stores (merchant statements) that have to
>be downloaded. Each download requires clicking through about 5 separate
>screens. It takes about 4 hours. B of A has made it abundantly clear they
>can not provide a disc with all the statements or any other means to
>download the statements in a group so I am left to my own devices. Is there
>any kind of script/key macro/magic I can write to at least semi automate the
>download process? Any help would be appreciated since I have some clerks
>ready to lynch me. TIA
>
>Jim Hale
>
>
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