Login HTTP request documentation?

[Green Snake]

As the title suggests, I want to know how I can send login request via HTTP. I need to have a third party application, which would connect to my website, and attempt to login the user with the information he/she specifies, and get response back specifying whether login was successful or not. I have been looking around the forums, documents as well as through search engines but failed to find anything even remotely close to what I need, so if you have any kind of answer, please tell me. Thanks in advance!

[margarett]

Do to send that login request to SMF? Or is it a more "general" coding request?

If you need to login to SMF from a third-party application, you will need this API
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=453008.0

[Green Snake]

I think I was being a bit unclear on my post. I have an application, which is in persons local computer, and is able to communicate with web server, so it should be very possible to act as a browser to the extent of sending and receiving HTTP requests. And I want to know how to format said requests to make it attempt to log me into the forum, and see if it was successful or not.

[margarett]

I don't think you can do it on simple http requests...

There's another API (a RESTful) one, but I'm not sure if it can work that way...