HttpWebRequest and Cookies

PutterPlace · #1 (**permalink**) 08-06-2008, 8:38 PM

I'm having a problem with the cookies for my HttpWebRequest. First, I'm doing an HttpWebRequest to grab a PHP form from my site. When the PHP form is loaded, it set two cookies. Then I'm supposed to submit that form with those two cookies. My problem none of my request send the cookies that they're supposed to. Here's the gist of my code that's causing problems:

Code:

                Dim CookieJar as New CookieContainer()
                Try
                    Dim Stream As Stream
                    Dim Temp As String
                    Dim Request As HttpWebRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(My.Settings.loginURL)
                    Request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14"
                    Dim Response As HttpWebResponse = Request.GetResponse()
                    Stream = Response.GetResponseStream
                    Dim tempCookie As Cookie
                    For Each tempCookie In Response.Cookies
                        CookieJar.Add(tempCookie)
                    Next
                    Temp = New StreamReader(Stream).ReadToEnd()
                    Stream.Close()
                    Response.Close()
                Catch ex As Exception
                End Try
                Try
                    Dim Stream As Stream
                    Dim Temp As String
                    Dim Request As HttpWebRequest = HttpWebRequest.Create(My.Settings.postURL)
                    Request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14"
                    Request.CookieContainer = CookieJar
                    Dim Response As HttpWebResponse = Request.GetResponse()
                    Stream = Response.GetResponseStream
                    Dim tempCookie As Cookie
                    For Each tempCookie In Response.Cookies
                        Debug.WriteLine(tempCookie.Name)
                        CookieList.Add(tempCookie)
                    Next
                    CookieJar.Add(CookieList)
                    Temp = New StreamReader(Stream).ReadToEnd()
                    Stream.Close()
                    Response.Close()
                Catch ex As Exception
                End Try

Can someone please help me find out what's wrong?

JohnH · #2 (**permalink**) 08-07-2008, 9:32 AM

try this (pseudo), it has worked for me before:

Code:

CookieJar = New CookieContainer

req1.create
req1.CookieContainer = CookieJar
req1.getresponse

req2.create
req2.CookieContainer = CookieJar 
req2.getresponse

PutterPlace · #3 (**permalink**) 08-07-2008, 10:38 AM

I will try that out, and post back with my results.

PutterPlace · #4 (**permalink**) 08-07-2008, 3:37 PM

That worked like a charm. Thanks, JohnH.

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