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C#

Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points
Posted by Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points

Working with HTTP in the Browser with C#

Hi there,

I just finished the HTTP basics and thought I would make a little program that automatically logins into a website.

The Objective of the program is to Automatically log-in to my Pinboard account. Although I seems to make contact with the /auth URI and Responds, it seems that this connection is closed or somehow not linked with the last function of opening the browser. When the browser opens, it doesn't seem to know that the program already logged-in.

Any ideas?

static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string FormUrl = "https://pinboard.in/auth/";
            string PinUserName = "aarondv1";
            string PinPassword = "";
            string FormParams = string.Format("username={0}&password={1}", PinUserName, PinPassword);
            string cookieHeader;


            //Three Headers to update
            //1) ContentType
            //2)Method
            //*)  Conversion from UTF-8? to ANCI2?   
                    //      Not sure that its necessary, bc pinboard might use utf?? 
            //3)ContentLength


            WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(FormUrl);
            req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
            req.Method = "POST";

            /*Conversion*/
            byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(FormParams);
            req.ContentLength = bytes.Length;

            using (Stream os = req.GetRequestStream())
            {
                os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
            }

            WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
            string opend = resp.ResponseUri.ToString();

            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(opend);




        }
    }

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

Assuming the site maintains login status with a cookie, how do you capture the cookie, and then place it where the browser will find and use it?