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Forms Authentication and HttpWebRequest

Hi,

I need to be able to login to a site via Forms Authentication using a HttpWebRequest.

Currently, when I provide NetworkCreditials to the request, it just redirects me to the Login page, which makes sense...but how do I go about ensuring that the request correctly authenticates without redirecting?

Thanks,
Kieron

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If the site uses cookies to tracks users you need to use a cookie container in order to store the authentication cookie emitted by the server and reuse this cookie in later requests to access authenticated parts of the site.

Darin Dimitrov  2010-06-19 10:16:14
Also you cant just use NetworkCredential. That is for transport authentication. You will have to figure out how the credentials are being passed to the page -usually through FORMS post.
feroze  2010-06-19 14:53:45
Thanks @feroze, i think I'm going to have to go via the redirect,detect and post route.
Kieron  2010-06-19 21:31:37

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