Internet programming Help Wanted

From: Rohit (joshid_43016_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: 31 Dec 2003 10:25:43 -0800

I need some ideas on how to write a program that could

 -- Read an MS Access database and grab information say Vehicle year,
vehicle make
 -- Make a call to a website and enter the information grabbed earlier
 -- Get the Auto premium quote
 -- Store the results on the MS Access database / table.

The Websites that quote premium on web like progressive's website use
POST method to pass information from one URL to another. For example,
below are the URLs that we go through to get a quote on Progressive's
web site.

1) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/info.asp
2) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/PriorIns.asp
3) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/driver.asp
3) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/VehInfo.asp
4) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/Vehicles.Asp
5) https://buyonline2.progressive.com/AdditionalInformation.asp

Finally on URL https://buyonline2.progressive.com/RateCombo.asp, I get
the quoted premium.

I would like to automate this process and have this done
programatically. Any ideas, sample code, help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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