Hi,
Thank you for taking the time to read my question, and hopefully answering it. Does anyone know what is the best way to automate my interactions on some websites. For example, I would really like to write a small program to place bids for me on overstock.com at specific time intervals. I know there are some tools out there that does this sort of thing, but I would like to program my own. I checked Overstock.com's API and I know how to work with that, but there is nothing in there API about actually performing something , like placing bids. Its all about getting information about items and getting the overstock time and the time remaining. Also, it doesnt have to be only overstock.com, I have other sites that I would like to write programs to interact with, just dont know what road to take in order to acheive that. Any advice in regards to this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Bechir BejaouiPosted Dec 10, 2008, 10:08 AM
To make the different parts interact, you can use .Net remoting. If all platforms those going to interact are all issued from .Net background then make use of tcp channels to intercommunicate, if they are heterogenious then use SOAP ones.
The tcp channels are more fast then SOAP ones because the SOAP data quantity can take four time the size of the equivalent in tcp(binary) context but SOAP is recognized by all kind of applications as it has standard and conventional XML format.