Cookies in C# HTMLdocument & httpweb

Jose,
I am not sure if CookieContainer will help you, but give a try.
The above listed links have some samples, refer it.

I don't know what AxSHDocVw is. I see many results when I search for it in MSDN but I don't see the documentation for it. Of course I did not look for it as much as I would if I was using it myself.


I have gone down many paths in the past that appear to go where I need to go, but then they don't. I think that you won't be successful getting the cookies you need unless you use something that navigates to the web site that the cookie is for.

My solution so far is follows:

Create a web browser

AxSHDocVw.AxWebBrowser axWebBrowser1;
mshtml.HTMLDocument doc;
doc = (mshtml.HTMLDocument)axWebBrowser1.Document;

Login to the site in the web browse once. Once logged in, I want to be able to use the cookie in subsequent HTTPWebequest to obtain data accessible only when logged in, thus requiring the cookies in the request. Now, I understand that HTMLDocument has a cookie property, but how to use that property in the CookieContainer property of HTTPWebequest?

I think you have at least a couple of choices. I think the worst case is to determine the location of cookies using:

Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Cookies));

However I think the best solution is to obtain the cookies using the HTML document as you say. I assume the document won't be in a WebBrowser object. You describe how you will get the HTML but you don't specify how you will use it after that. In order to get the cookie from the HTML, you actually will need to get it from the web site in the sense that IE must navigate to it. So I think that httpwebrequest and httpwebresponse won't help with that. You don't need to use the WebBrowser control; I think you can use an InternetExplorer object. I think I can help with that; do you want to do that?

Long way back i tried same with CookieContainer class.

I dont remember exact coding and logic.

Do a web search, might got some solutions.

refer these listed links