WebRequest & Sessions

[Ron]

Hi there,

I'm trying to 'browse' a website using the HttpWebRequest class by calling
the following function (webRequest is declared outside the function):
private string GetHtml(string sUrl)
{
string sResult;

WebResponse objResponse;
webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(sUrl);

webRequest.KeepAlive = true;
webRequest.Method = "GET";
objResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();

StreamReader sReader = new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream(),
System.Text.Encoding.UTF7);
sResult = sReader.ReadToEnd();
sReader.Close();

return (sResult);
}

The problem I have is that the session does not stay alive, i.e. each time I
connect to the same site (different page), it views me as a new visitor and
the session info is cleared.
Is there a way to get around this?

Thanx
Ron

 

[Patrik Löwendahl [C# MVP]]

Hi,

Since sessions are identified with cookies you nees a way to allow for
cookies to be stored in your WebRequest. To do that you first have to cast
it to a HttpWebRequest and a HttpWebResponse object. Then you need them to
share the same "Cookie Container".

Watch for linewraps..

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ethttpwebrequestclasscookiecontainertopic.asp