HTTPS WebRequest and WebResponse

My C# project seems a little complex for me to handle. I am trying to auto
login to a bank https site, the site will then redirect me to a menu page
and then I need to auto select a link that will build a text file and ask
if I would like to save, where I select yes to download the text file to a
local folder. I cannot get past the first step of logging into the site
automatically, any ideas?


The CODE:

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Text;

namespace Web
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for Class1.
/// </summary>
class Class1
{
/// <summary>
/// The main entry point for the application.
///

// * create a container to hold request cookies
CookieContainer CookieJar = new CookieContainer();

///
/// </summary>

[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//
// Application Start

// Creates an HttpWebRequest for the specified URL.
HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
("https://securebanksite.com/secure/images/index.cfm";);

// Create a new HttpWebRequest Object to the mentioned URL.
myHttpWebRequest.MaximumAutomaticRedirections=1;
myHttpWebRequest.AllowAutoRedirect=true;


// Sends the HttpWebRequest and waits for response.
HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)
myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse();


// Displays all the headers present in the response received from the URI.
Console.WriteLine("\r\nThe following headers were received in the
response:");


// Displays each header and it's key associated with the response.
for(int i=0; i < myHttpWebResponse.Headers.Count; ++i)
Console.WriteLine("\nHeader Name:{0}, Value :{1}
",myHttpWebResponse.Headers.Keys[i],myHttpWebResponse.Headers[i]);

// Set 'Preauthenticate' property to true. Credentials will be sent with
the request.
myHttpWebRequest.PreAuthenticate=true;

///Manual login from console for testing

// Console.WriteLine("\nPlease Enter ur credentials for the requested Url");
// Console.WriteLine("UserName");
// string USER_ID=Console.ReadLine();
// Console.WriteLine("Password");
// string PASSWD=Console.ReadLine();

///Auto login for production

string USER_ID="username";
string PASSWD="password";

// Create a New 'NetworkCredential' object.
NetworkCredential networkCredential=new NetworkCredential(USER_ID,PASSWD);

// Associate the 'NetworkCredential' object with the 'WebRequest' object.
myHttpWebRequest.Credentials=networkCredential;

// Assign the response object of 'WebRequest' to a 'WebResponse' variable.
WebResponse myWebResponse=myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse();

// Create a new HttpWebRequest Object to the mentioned URL.
myHttpWebRequest.MaximumAutomaticRedirections=2;
myHttpWebRequest.AllowAutoRedirect=true;

/// Response to screen
// Obtain a 'Stream' object associated with the response object.
Stream ReceiveStream = myWebResponse.GetResponseStream();

Encoding encode = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8");

// Pipe the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required
encoding format.
StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader( ReceiveStream, encode );
Console.WriteLine("\nResponse stream received");
Char[] read = new Char[256];

// Read 256 charcters at a time.
int count = readStream.Read( read, 0, 256 );
Console.WriteLine("HTML...\r\n");

//while (count > 0)
//{
// Dump the 256 characters on a string and display the string onto the
console.
//String str = new String(read, 0, count);
//Console.Write(str);
//count = readStream.Read(read, 0, 256);
//}

Console.Error.WriteLine("");
// Release the resources of stream object.
readStream.Close();

// Release the resources of response object.
myWebResponse.Close();

// Releases the resources of the response.
myHttpWebResponse.Close();


/// Application End
///

}
}
}


The RESULT:

C:\Temp\bin\Debug>Web.exe

The following headers were received in the response:

Header Name:Server, Value :Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3

Header Name:Date, Value :Tue, 31 May 2005 19:15:53 GMT

Header Name:Set-cookie, Value :CFID=5074066;expires=Thu, 24-May-2035
19:15:54 GMT;path=/,CFTOKEN=71606034;expires=Thu, 2
4-May-2035 19:15:54 GMT;path=/,CFID=5074066;path=/,CFTOKEN=71606034;path=/

Header Name:Content-type, Value :text/html; charset=UTF-8

Header Name:Connection, Value :close

Response stream received
HTML...

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