I'm not sure if this should be in a web forum or not, but half of it has to do with vb, and the other half is on the web.

I made a vb application that has a webbrowser control. All I want is to make the web page only viewable through the application. I do not want to pass a variable in the url string of the webbrowser control, therefore I'm wondering if there is some way to change the User Agent information of the webbrowser control? Or maybe set something else in the control that I can test on the web page?
Any help would be great .

No, but you could use the winsock control instead and specify anything you like

Okay, thank you.

I've never used winsock before so I'm going to do a little reading here and on wincockvb.com, but just out of curiosity how would that be structured? Can the winsock control display webpages, or do I connect to the server with the winsock control and pass the info to a webbrowser control, or is it another senario?

As a matter of fact.. I just made a post with a "mini-browser"

http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/show...threadid=55900

That looks great OnErrOr ... I'm having a problem though. You mention making a reference to the winsock control, but I can't find it in Project - References. Do I need to download it from somewhere first?

Edit:
Oops .. never mind, I found it. Thanks.

Sorry, but I'm struggling a bit here. If I get winsock to return a string containing a web page, then how do I display it? Do I need to save it as an html file? If I display it in a webbrowser control, then the webbrowser will take over as the host instead of winsock. This isn't good because as soon as the user click on a link, the webbrowser will do all the work instead of winsock.

You'd have to save it, then use a WebBrowser to display it.

Thanks for the reply ChiefRedBull .
The problem is that I'm going to be passing information (header, or specific user agent string if possible) to the website through winsock. On the server side (PHP), I'm not going to allow anyone to view the site unless the header information is present. Therefore, if I save it as an html file and display it in a webbrowser control, the webbrowser control will take the data transfer responsibilities away from winsock, and it will not send the proper headers/useragent when the user navigates the site.
Does that make sense .. hehe (i hope). Is this even possible?

Cogen - you are misunderstanding. Once you've received and
saved the HTML from your server, it is displayed locally. The WB
control will only access the server for the images.. that's ok isn't
it?

Yes, accessing the server for the images is fine. I understand that the html file will be stored locally, but my problem is that the local html file will have *a href=* links to other pages on the site. When the user clicks on those links, the webbrowser will go to the page, and that page will not be local, but on the server. From that point on, the webbrowser control handles everything, rather then winsock.

You can interrupt it - the WebBrowser has a BeforeNavigate
event, which you can cancel, then use the Winsock to download
the link that was clicked.