Dim cc As CookieContainer = New CookieContainer() Dim req As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(url), HttpWebRequest) req.Method = "POST" req.CookieContainer = cc req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" req.ContentLength = data.Length Dim reqStream As Stream = req.GetRequestStream() reqStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length) reqStream.Close() Dim res As WebResponse = req.GetResponse() Dim resStream As Stream = res.GetResponseStream() Dim sr As StreamReader = New StreamReader(resStream, enc)