Hi, i'm trying to create an HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse session with an ASP.NET website to later parse an HTML form through url params (this part i know how to do), but I do not understand how to parse and set a cookie such as the session id. In Fiddler, it shows that the ASP.NET Session ID is returned through Set-Cookie in the respon...
I want to check if a particular page gets redirected or not. However, whenever I try this the headers I get back seem to be from the redirected page, not the initially requested page (and, in particular, the status is OK rather than the 302 I want to see). Is there something I can set so that it won't automatically follow the redirects?...
Hello: I have a function in C# that fetches the status of Internet by retrieving a 64b XML from the router page public bool isOn() { HttpWebRequest hwebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://" + this.routerIp + "/top_conn.xml"); hwebRequest.Timeout = 500; HttpWebResponse hWebResp...
There are many sites which call a script upon form submit and pass in parameters using HTTP POST or GET, using a web debugger i have found the parameters being passed. Now i wish to do the same thing through my Windows Application in C#. How can i achieve such a functionality? I am currently using HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse clas...
WebResponse response; try { HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); request.Timeout = 20000; response = request.GetResponse(); request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url2); response = request.GetResponse(); } catch(Exception ex) { //do something } finally { } where shou...
I need to perform some action in wordpress admin panel programmatically but can't manage how to login to Wordpress using C# and HttpWebRequest. Here is what I do: private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string url = "http://localhost/wordpress/wp-login.php"; HttpWebRequest request = (Htt...
Suppose I am retrieving a url as follows: string url = "http://www.somesite.com/somepage.html" HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse(); Is there a way I can see the IP address of the destination url? Does it require a separate call? Thanks ...
There is a particular secure web page that we are required to download and parse. Its from this parsed data we need to do a host of other things... The so-called 'multiple authentication' part goes like the follows: If you've hosted web sites on IIS and turned on the Integrated Security feature (with anonymous browsing turned off), you'...
Hi I need to write a simple WinForms apps that can be fired to test if a website is still alive and that that website is able to read from a database. I am using the whole "(HttpWebResponse)myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse()" thing in c# to test whether the site is alive, but I am at a lose for how to get a test page in my website to write...
I need to autheticate on a site using forms authentication and then redirect the user to that site along with the session cookie. I have not figured out how to successfully do this. Here's my code so far.. I still get redirected to that apps login page. Any help is much appreciated! protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventA...
Hi, I'm making a program which downloads files over http. I've got it downloading, however I want to be able to pause the downloads, close the program and resume them again at a later date. I know the location i'm downloading them from supports this. I'm downloading the file through HttpWebResponse and reading the response into a Str...
Is there any way I can hook Fiddler up to capture requests and responses made using .NET HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse? ...
How to detect that a WebRequest failed due to a web proxy error and not a target web server error? try { var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.example.com"); request.Proxy = new WebProxy("localhost"); var response = request.GetResponse(); return response.GetResponseStream(); } catch(WebException we...
I am building a library that allows a user to download files from a URL. One of the options I am considering is letting the user specify the expected MD5 checksum for the file; the library's GetFile(string url) function ensures that the checksum for the downloaded stream matches the one specified by the user. Being aware that the Networ...
I'm getting the response from an HttpWebRequest (using a modified version Jeff Richter's CCR wrappers), then inspecting a few of the headers in order to decide whether or not to continue the download. Sometimes I might not want to continue, so I consequently issue response.Close and request.Abort. Is it necessary to issue GetResponseStre...
Response.GetResponseStream() is returning xml with escape characters <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?> Because of this XmlReader return {None}. Help please? HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url); req.Accept = "*/*"; req.Headers.Add("UA-CPU", "x86"); req.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0;...
Hi am trying to make an application that post data to a joomla login page but the only thing i get back is cookies is not enabled. Function GetPage(ByVal Url As String) As String Dim CookieJar As New Net.CookieContainer Dim enc As Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252) Dim Data As Byte() = Nothing Dim PostData As String ...
Hi all, I was trying to get clarification on this : Method-1: Dim request = CreateRequest(uri) //some uri Dim response = DirectCast(request.GetResponse, HttpWebResponse) response.Close() Method-2: Dim request = Createrequest(uri) Using response = DirectCast(request.GetResponse, HttpWebResponse) End Using When I used both Method-1...
All the asynchronous calls to HttpWebRequest.BeginGetResponse/EndGetResponse and HttpWebResponse.GetResponseStream().BeginRead/EndRead are made from try/catch blocks, however, these exceptions propagate and do not leave a chance handle them and stop application termination: Unhandled Exception: System.IO.IOException: Unable to read d...
I am using the following code to make a HttpWebRequest and render the XML from the response stream. ` HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url); req.Accept = "/"; req.Headers.Add("UA-CPU", "x86"); req.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; MS-RTC LM 8)"; req.CookieContainer = new Cookie...