Get the .ASPXAUTH cookie value programmatically

Question

Is there a way to get the .ASPXAUTH value programmatically.

Example I login to a website with my own credentials (POST) and then read the response...it does not retu

Answer 1

So the summarize the answer:

If you're trying to login programatically on a Forms based authentication website trough your own application make sure you follow the steps you take that track the cookies.

First create a initial GET request, and then do the subsequential POST requests that will do the postback.The request and the responses should be formulated in this way:

HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(_url);
request.CookieContainer = _cookieJar;
HttpWebResponse httpsResponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

The CookieContainer class handles the cookies as expected.

And if your response is encoded with Gzip just include the following line:

request.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate;

before you call request.GetResponse()

Hope this helps someone out there.