title: How to pass data from a web page to an application?
body: <p>Trying to figure out a way where I can pass some data/fields from a web page back into my application. This needs to works on Windows/Linux/Mac so I can't use a DLL or ActiveX. Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p>Here's the flow:
  1. Application gathers some data and then sends it to a web page using POST that is either imbedded in the app or pops up a new IE window.
  2. The web page does some services and then needs to relay the results back to the application. </p>
  
  <p>The only way to do this that I can think of is writing the results locally from the page in a cookie or something like that and have the application monitor for a specific file in that folder. </p>
  
  <p>Alternatively, make a web service that the application hits after passing control to the page and when the page is done the web service will return the data. This sounds like it might have some performance drawbacks.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone suggest any better solutions for this?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>