Http Application for .Net
I was talking the other night to my brother about blogging software and related services. We got around to talking about Flickr and Sprint PCS. It is cumbersome to have to send one picture at a time from our cell phones to an email address.
The ideal situation would be that where we can upload pictures in bulk to our Sprint PCS Vision accounts and then a program can get access and download them for us. Once we have access to the files, we can then use the Flickr API to upload images to our Flickr accounts.
Sprint PCS does not offer any web services for its Vision customers. I am left with the option of screen scraping. This is where programmers such as myself programatically access the website and download content. It can be a complex process where you must visit one page before you visit another. Authentication measures send cookies to you and you need to make sure that cookies sent to you is sent back with the next request.
I’ve done a lot of screen scraping in the past, but this time I figure I’m going to do it with an application ment to help me out along the way. Enter my Http Application:
Ok, so it’s just a mockup, but this is where it all starts. I still need to build a regular expression application as well to help me pull out the results that I need. If all goes well, my brother and I will be pulling images from our Sprint PCS accounts and posting directly to Flickr in no time at all.
Tags: Flickr, Sprint PCS, Vision, Images, digiCAM, Cell Phone, Camera Phone, Moblog, Mobil Phone, Photographs, Automation, C#, Programming, Mockup