In addition you went to great lengths to denigrate the gentleman or lady
asking the question, thus exposing your character rather than the attackee.

You're fabricating. I was terse but not insulting. I provided a useful
tip - provided that he was logging into a site using a form with a
username and a password.

What I told the OP was true. He wasn't going to get an answer to his
question and he needed to make clarifications.

I provided the OP to favors.

And you. And Don Guillet. Both of you guys bent on playing microsoft
web cop. Neither of you bothered to provide a tip.

What I said was right on. No one is going to give that guy a tip on
how to do that WebQuery thing he wants to do.