IIS server help

I'm trying to automate access to a website that get 开发者_开发百科reports from a Microsoft-IIS/6.0 server, or at least I assume that because that is what is appearing in the HTTP Headers. So if the website connects this server, does it download the file via FTP? Is there any way that I can find out the commands being sent form my browser?

The weird thing about the website is that it uses Crystal Report ActiveX viewer, is that client side, is there any way that I can control the viewer through PERL?

Also, this might be a really dumb question, but does IIS use SQL/MySQL?

Any help is appreciated!

There are a lot of ways to watch the traffic being sent between your browser and the server.

http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/ Firebug for firefox Chrome has it built in by hitting ctrl+shift+i http://projects.nikhilk.net/WebDevHelper for IE F12 in IE will show developer tools (look under network tab) http://www.wireshark.org/ for watching any network traffic from any application