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Is .NET System.Net.CookieContainer thread safe?

Is the .NET class System.Net.CookieContainer thread safe? --Update: Turnkey answered-- Is there any way to ensure thread safeness to variables which are modified during asynchronous requests (ie. HttpWebRequest.CookieContainer)? Is there any attribute to highlight thread safe classes? --Update: If thread-safeness is described on MSDN th...

surfing with the same CookieContainer

How can you surf on a website assigning the same CookieContainer to each web request? ...

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Hello, How do I handle cookies with paths other than "/". An HttpWebRequest object returns these headers: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Transfer-Encoding: chunked Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:22:53 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Expires: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:22:53 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Server...

How to determine Session Timeout using when reusing CookieContainer

I have the following code which re-uses a CookieContainer which logs in on the first request, but just uses the cookie container for requests after. After a period of time if idle the site will give a Session Timeout, I will need to perform the login again. Q: Can I determine (with the cookie container object) if the timeout has happen...

CookieContainer bug?

I'm confused how CookieContainer handles domain, so I create this test. This test shows cookieContainer doesn't return any cookie for "site.com" but according to RFC it should return at least 2 cookies. Isn't it a bug? How make it to work? Here is a discussion about this bug: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ncl/thread/c...

handling a comma inside a cookie value using .net's (C#) System.Net.Cookie

I'm creating a client to visit a website and log in + do some tasks automatically, however they recently updated their cookies to (for whatever reason...) contain a comma inside their identification cookie. So for example, the Cookie will have a value similar to this: a,bcdefghijklmnop The problem is, according to msdn you can't use...

Adding a cookie to web service port client

I'm using a web service in my app that requires a specific cookie to be set in order access it's methods. I was using a generated wrapper class for that service that was created using wsdl.exe tool. Everything is working ok using that method. // this is the instance of object generated with wsdl.exe WSWrapper service = new WSWrapper();...

Sending cookies using HttpCookieCollection and CookieContainer

Hi everyone, I want to tunnel through an HTTP request from my server to a remote server, passing through all the cookies. So I create a new Http**Web**Request object and want to set cookies on it. Http**Web**Request.CookieContainer is type System.Net.CookieContainer which holds System.Net.Cookies On my incoming request object: HttpRe...

Logging in to eBay using HttpWebRequest

I'm trying to log in to my eBay account using the following code: string signInURL = "https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?co_partnerid=2&siteid=0&UsingSSL=1"; string postData = String.Format("MfcISAPICommand=SignInWelcome&userid={0}&pass={1}", "username", "password"); string contentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"...

C#: Writing a CookieContainer to Disk and Loading Back In For Use

I have a CookieContainer extracted from a HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse session named CookieJar. I want my application to store cookies between runs, so cookies collected in the CookieContainer on one run of the program will be used the next run, too. I think the way to do this would be to somehow write the contents of a CookieContaine...

C#: Using CookieContainer with WebClient class

I've previously used a CookieContainer with HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse sessions, but now, I want to use it with a WebClient. As far as I understand, there is no built-in method like there is for HttpWebRequests (request.CookieContainer). How can I collect cookies from a WebClient in a CookieContainer? I googled for this and foun...

Managing cookies in a WPF WebBrowser control?

Is there a way to read/write the cookies that a WebBrowser control uses? I am doing something like this... string resultHtml; HttpWebRequest request = CreateMyHttpWebRequest(); // fills http headers and stuff HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(response.GetRes...

Browser extension to create independent cookie stores narrower than spec.

Does anyone know of a browser extension (preferably Firefox) that allows you to create independent cookie stores at a finer (and configurable) granularity than the specification? E.g. say http://a.example.com/ first sends Set-Cookie: a=bar; expires=Fri, 31-Dec-2010 23:59:59 GMT; path=/; domain=.example.com So clearly this would also ...

.NET Compact Framework - Cookie-based Web Service access

Hello, I need to access Web Service from .NET Compact Framework 3.5 application. Problem is that Web Service uses cookies for authentication. In desktop application I use .NETs CookieContainer(), which is missing in CF. How can I manage cookies in CF without CookieContainer? Can someone give me a hand in solving this problem? Thank you...

clear cookie container in WebRequest

I'm using the WebRequest object to post data to a login page, then post data to a seperate page on the same site. I am instantiating a CookieContainer and assigning it to the WebRequest object so that the cookies are handled. The problem is that I do not want to retain the cookie after I post data to the other page. How can I delete t...

C# Web Service Client using a CookieContainer

I have developed a small C# form application which calls a web service. Everything works nicely but I need to keep state and to do that I need to use a CookieContainer if I am not mistaken. I created the Service Reference by using the "Add Service Reference" menu of my project and everything worked nicely. But I do not know how to add ...

Is this webpage-logging-in Python script correct?

Is this Python script correct? import urllib, urllib2, cookielib username = 'myuser' password = 'mypassword' cj = cookielib.CookieJar() opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cj)) login_data = urllib.urlencode({'username' : username, 'j_password' : password}) opener.open('http://www.example.com/login.php', l...

How to capture the "JavaScript SetCookie event" in a WebBrowser?

How to capture the "JavaScript SetCookie event" in a WebBrowser? I want to synchronize the cookie to a CookieContainer when a javascript setcookie event occurred simultaneously. such as <script>document.cookie="testcookie"</script> Is there an event related to this ? thanks. Environment: .Net 2.0 WebBrowser, C#, VS2008 ...

Writing cookies from CookieContainer to the IE cookie store

I want to navigate to a page in a web app from a desktop app. "No problem", I hear you say, "just fire up the default browser with the correct URL". However, the web app uses ASP.NET Forms Authentication, and the users don't want to see the login page because they have already authenticated with the same credentials in the desktop app. ...

CookieContainer handling of paths (Who ate my cookie?)

Hi, I'm working on a project that involves some basic web crawling. I've been using HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse quite successfully. For cookie handling I just have one CookieContainer that I assign to HttpWebRequest.CookieContainer each time. I automatically gets populated with the new cookies each time and requires no additional...