progmatic Form post (HttpWebRequest / Response) sessions

From: Ron Vecchi (vencenzo_at_online.nospam)
Date: 06/16/04 

Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:48:07 -0400

I know this has messiness written all over it but I have a question about
using HttpWebRequest/Response to essentially spider a website and post
information to the forms. The (very) basic goal is to progmattically
access a login account by posting the username and password and then
maintaining the session so that the program can continue to access web pages
that require a valid login sesssion.

The big if for me is maintaining the session thoughout all this so the
server recognizes me after the initial post to gain access. Two scenariaos
come to play.
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If the server maintains the sessions(no cookies) I am uneasily predicting
that session state will remain fine.
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If cookies are used I am a little sceptical on how to maintain state. If I
can access the cookie then it will need to be stored in memory and
retransmitted back to the server on the next access.

Has anyone tried this and got it to work. Or any insight is defiunatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Ron

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