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POWhere do I set cookies when my web application receives an HttpRequest?
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  1. POWhere do I set cookies when my web application receives an HttpRequest?
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    copied!<p>Where in my C# code do I need to put the code for setting cookies? Firefox shows three cookies when I'm logged in to the system.</p> <p><strong>Login page</strong> </p> <p><code>system.local/interface/Login.php</code></p> <pre><code>POST /interface/Login.php HTTP/1.1 Host: system.local User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://system.local/interface/Login.php Cookie: language=en_US.UTF-8; StationID=06ae3ed4d72a33dd951572df84a13725 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 71 user_name=user&amp;password=password123456&amp;language=en&amp;action%3Asubmit=Submit </code></pre> <p><strong>GET response from index.php when logged in</strong> </p> <p><code>http://system.local/interface/index.php</code></p> <pre><code>GET /interface/index.php HTTP/1.1 Host: system.local User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: de-de,de;q=0.8,en-us;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: keep-alive Referer: system.local/interface/Login.php Cookie: language=en_US.UTF-8; StationID=06ae3ed4d72a33dd951572df84a13725; SessionID=3783a8fea972fb99779f7dd3078ed53c </code></pre> <p><strong>Where to put the cookie(s) in this code?</strong> </p> <pre><code>string url; string cookieHeader; string formparam; HttpWebRequest request; HttpWebResponse response; byte[] bytes; url = "http://system.local/interface/Login.php"; formparam = string.Format("user_name=" + textBox1.Text + "&amp;password=" + textBox2.Text + "&amp;language=en&amp;action%3Asubmit=Submit"); request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url); var cookies = new CookieContainer(); request.ContentType = "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; request.Method = "POST"; bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(formparam); request.ContentLength = bytes.Length; request.KeepAlive = true; using (Stream os = request.GetRequestStream()) { os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length); } response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); cookieHeader = response.Headers["Set-Cookie"]; request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://system.local/interface/Login.php"); request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer(); request.CookieContainer.Add(response.Cookies); request.Headers.Add("Cookie", cookieHeader); response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())) { //richTextBox1.Text = reader.ReadToEnd().Trim(); } </code></pre>
 

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