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HttpWebRequest and Session Information

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ALA - 07 Oct 2007 17:44 GMT
Hi,

does anybody know if it is possible to pass the SessionID with a web
request by using a cookie so that the invoked page in the same domain
can access the session objects of the current user?

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
HttpCookie sessionCookie =
HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies["ASP.NET_SessionId"];
request.CookieContainer.Add(new Cookie(sessCookie.Name,
sessCookie.Value, "/", "localhost"));
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

This example doesn't seem to work for me but I do not know why... at
least I get a timeout when I execute the code above although the
mechanism works for every other cookie type, too. If I start a
HttpWebRequest without any session information, the target page has a
new and different sessionID than the soure page.

Thanks for the help

Andre
George Ter-Saakov - 08 Oct 2007 16:11 GMT
In theory you create CookieContainer once and use it with every request.
HttpWebRequest will automaticly use it and update if needed.
You do not need to populate/repopulate it every time.

Example:
CookieContainer myContainer = new CookieContainer();
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("login.aspx");
request.CookieContainer = myContainer;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
......

request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("secondpage.aspx");
request.CookieContainer = myContainer;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

PS: I belive the cookie's name fro ASP.NET session is changing all the time
(when .NET application restarts)
and it's different than ASP.NET_SessionId
So HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies["ASP.NET_SessionId"];
should always be null.

George.

> Hi,
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> Andre

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