Re: HttpWebRequest with java session id cookie; HELP PLEASE

Been there...tried that.

Amil

"Joerg Jooss" <news-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Amil wrote:
>
> > Please don't repond to this if you are guessing or just don't know the
> > answer.
> >
> > I'm trying to login to a backend system running Java/Tomcat. I
> > create a HttpWebRequest with the login data and do a POST. This
> > works fine. The HttpWebResponse content I get back is just
> > javascript "window.location=xxx" (with normal html around it). The
> > HttpWebResponse also contains a java session id cookie. Fine so far.
> >
> > I want to go to the new location (assume I parse it out); I create a
> > second HttpWebRequest with a new cookie container and add the java
> > session id cookie to the request:
> >
> > HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(xxx);
> > request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
> > request.CookieContainer.Add(response.Cookies); // add in java
> > session id cookie
> >
> > When I submit this request, I end up back at the login page...sort of
> > like it doesn't think I've logged in. I've verified that the
> > outgoing request contains the java session id cookie. I've also
> > played around with setting some of the request properties (e.g.
> > timeout, content-type, user-agent, request.accept, etc), but no luck.
> >
> > It accepts my login; any idea on why when I create a second request,
> > the request is not valid? Anything I'm missing here? Thanks.
>
> You have to create a CookieContainer before the *first* request and use
> that with all of your requests. It will keep track of incoming cookies
> automatically.
>
> Cheers,
> --
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