Return CookiesContainer object from WCF service to client

Question

I want to return CookiesContainer object from WCF service but I cann't return. I can return string from service.

Here is my Web.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
        <authentication mode="Windows">
            <forms cookieless="UseCookies" requireSSL="false" />
        </authentication>
  </system.web>
  
  <system.serviceModel>
       
    <services>
      <service name="WcfService1.Service1" behaviorConfiguration="ServiceBehaviour">
        <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="" contract="WcfService1.IService1" />
        <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
      </service>
    </services>
       
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="ServiceBehaviour">
         <!--<behavior>-->
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" />
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="true" />
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <client>
      <endpoint address="http://localhost/WcfService1/Service1.svc"
        binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IService1"
        contract="ServiceReference1.IService1" name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" />
    </client>
    
    <bindings>
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" closeTimeout="00:01:00"
          openTimeout="00:01:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:01:00"
          allowCookies="false" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
          maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
          messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
          useDefaultWebProxy="true">
          <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
            maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
          <security mode="None">
            <transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
              realm="" />
            <message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
          </security>
        </binding>
      </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>
    
        <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
  </system.serviceModel>
  
 <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
  </system.webServer>
  
</configuration>

Here is myIService1.cs

using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.Linq; 
using System.Runtime.Serialization; 
using System.ServiceModel; 
using System.ServiceModel.Web; 
using System.Text; 
using System.Net; 
using System.IO; 
using System.Web; 
 
namespace WcfService1 
{ 
// NOTE: You can use the "Rename" command on the "Refactor" menu to change the interface name "IService1" in both code and config file together. 
[ServiceContract] 
public interface IService1 
{ 
    [OperationContract] 
    CookieCollection GetCookies(); 
 
    [OperationContract] 
    CookieContainer GetConnect(string uname, string password); 
    //string GetConnect(string uname, string password); 
} 
} 

Here is my Service1.svc.cs

using System; 
using System.Collections.Generic; 
using System.Linq; 
using System.Runtime.Serialization; 
using System.ServiceModel; 
using System.ServiceModel.Web; 
using System.Text; 
using System.Net; 
using System.IO; 
using System.Web; 
 
namespace WcfService1 
{ 
// NOTE: You can use the "Rename" command on the "Refactor" menu to change the class name "Service1" in code, svc and config file together. 
public class Service1 : IService1 
{ 
    public CookieCollection GetCookies() 
    { 
        HttpWebRequest req; 
        CookieCollection cc = new CookieCollection(); 
        req = null; 
 
        req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://site5.way2sms.com/"); 
        req.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer(); 
        // req.CookieContainer.Add(cc); 
 
        req.CookieContainer.Add(cc); 
        req.KeepAlive = true; 
 
        req.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11"; 
        req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; 
        req.Accept = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"; 
 
        req.Referer = "http://site5.way2sms.com/content/index.html"; 
 
        req.AllowAutoRedirect = true; 
        req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = true; 
 
        return ((HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse()).Cookies; 
    } 
 
    public CookieContainer GetConnect(string uid, string password) 
    //public string GetConnect(string uid, string password) 
    { 
        HttpWebRequest req; 
        HttpWebResponse res; 
        Stream str; 
 
 
        //try 
        //{ 
            req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://site5.way2sms.com/Login1.action"); 
            req.Method = "POST"; 
            CookieContainer con = new CookieContainer(); 
            req.CookieContainer = con; 
            req.CookieContainer.Add(GetCookies()); 
            req.KeepAlive = true; 
 
            req.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11"; 
            req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; 
            req.Accept = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"; 
 
            req.Referer = "http://site5.way2sms.com/content/index.html"; 
 
            byte[] data = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes("username=" + uid + "&password=" + password); 
            req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(uid, password); 
            req.ContentLength = data.Length; 
            req.AllowAutoRedirect = true; 
            req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = true; 
 
            str = req.GetRequestStream(); 
            str.Write(data, 0, data.Length); 
            str.Close(); 
 
 
            res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse(); 
 
            string iduri = System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(res.ResponseUri.Query).Get("id"); 
 
            if (iduri != "") 
            { 
                return con; 
                //return "Success"; 
            } 
            else 
            { 
                res.Close(); 
                str.Close(); 
 
                return null; 
                //return "Fail"; 
            } 
        //} 
        //catch (Exception ex) 
        //{ 
 
        //} 
    } 
  } 
 } 

Here is my Login.xaml.cs

  private void btnSignin_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) 
    { 
        string uid = txtUsername.Text.Trim(); 
        string password = txtPassword.Password.Trim(); 
 
        networkIsAvailable = Checknetwork(); 
        if (networkIsAvailable) 
        { 
            MessageBox.Show("Network Avaliable", "Avaliable", MessageBoxButton.OK); 
            //svc.GetcookiesCompleted += new EventHandler<GetcookiesCompletedEventArgs>(svc_Get_Cookies); 
            //svc.GetcookiesAsync();  
 
            txtblockcheck.Visibility = Visibility.Visible; 
            svc.GetConnectCompleted += new EventHandler<GetConnectCompletedEventArgs>(svc_Get_Connected); 
            svc.GetConnectAsync(uid, password); 
        } 
        else 
        { 
            MessageBox.Show("Please check your network", "Warning", MessageBoxButton.OK); 
        } 
    } 
 
 
    void svc_Get_Connected(object send, GetConnectCompletedEventArgs e) 
    { 
        CookieContainer con = e.Result; 
    } 

When I return CookiesContainer from service I get this following error

There was no endpoint listening at http://localhost:3922/Service1.svc that could accept the message. This is often caused by an incorrect address or SOAP action. See InnerException, if present, for more details.

I doesn't understand how can I return CookiesContainer Object from service to client.

Answer 1

Hi,

In Web.config, you only set the client node, but the service will load the service node for setting the endpoint:

Please delete the client node and add the code as below:

    <services>
      <service name="MyServiceReference.Service1">
      <endpoint address="http://localhost:3922/Service1.svc" binding="basicHttpBinding"
       bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" contract="MyServiceReference.IService1"
       name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" />
      </service>
    </services>

Answer 2

I have change my web.config file.

Can you please check it.

Answer 3

Sure,

Please provide the web.config.

Also , if you can share your project with me would be more appreciated.

Answer 4

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
    <authentication mode="Windows">
      <forms cookieless="UseCookies" requireSSL="false" />
    </authentication>
  </system.web>
  <system.serviceModel>
    
    <bindings>
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" closeTimeout="00:10:00"
          openTimeout="00:10:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:10:00"
          allowCookies="true" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
          maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
          messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
          useDefaultWebProxy="true">
          <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
            maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
          <security mode="None">
            <transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
              realm="" />
            <message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
          </security>
        </binding>
      </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>
    <client>
      <endpoint address="http://localhost/WebService/Service1.svc"
        binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="BasicHttpBinding_IService1"
        contract="ServiceReference1.IService1" name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" />
    </client>
    <services>
      <service name="WcfService1.Service1" behaviorConfiguration="ServiceBehaviour">
        <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="" contract="WcfService1.IService1" />
        <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
      </service>
    </services>
    
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="ServiceBehaviour">
          <!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information, set the value below to false and remove the metadata endpoint above before deployment -->
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
          <!-- To receive exception details in faults for debugging purposes, set the value below to true.  Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing exception information -->
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
  </system.serviceModel>
 <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
  </system.webServer>
  
</configuration>

Here is my web.config

Answer 5

Hi,

After a little change to your web.config , it is as below add the dictionaryBrowse and delete the client node(client node is for client side ,not service side):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5" />
    <authentication mode="Windows">
      <forms cookieless="UseCookies" requireSSL="false" />
    </authentication>
  </system.web>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <basicHttpBinding>
        <binding name="BasicHttpBinding_IService1" closeTimeout="00:10:00"
          openTimeout="00:10:00" receiveTimeout="00:10:00" sendTimeout="00:10:00"
          allowCookies="true" bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
          maxBufferSize="65536" maxBufferPoolSize="524288" maxReceivedMessageSize="65536"
          messageEncoding="Text" textEncoding="utf-8" transferMode="Buffered"
          useDefaultWebProxy="true">
          <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384"
            maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
          <security mode="None">
            <transport clientCredentialType="None" proxyCredentialType="None"
              realm="" />
            <message clientCredentialType="UserName" algorithmSuite="Default" />
          </security>
        </binding>
      </basicHttpBinding>
    </bindings>
    <services>
      <service behaviorConfiguration="ServiceBehaviour" name="WcfService1.Service1">
        <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration=""
          contract="WcfService1.IService1" />
        <endpoint address="mex" binding="mexHttpBinding" contract="IMetadataExchange" />
      </service>
    </services>
    <behaviors>
      <serviceBehaviors>
        <behavior name="ServiceBehaviour">
          <serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true"/>
          <serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
        </behavior>
      </serviceBehaviors>
    </behaviors>
    <serviceHostingEnvironment multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
  </system.serviceModel>
  <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/>
    <directoryBrowse enabled="true"/>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

More ,test Code:

[ServiceContract]
    public interface IService1
    {
        [OperationContract]
        CookieContainer GetConnect(string username, string password);
    }
    [DataContract]
    public class CookieContainer
    {
        bool boolValue = true;
        string stringValue = "Hello ";
        [DataMember]
        public bool BoolValue
        {
            get { return boolValue; }
            set { boolValue = value; }
        }
        [DataMember]
        public string StringValue
        {
            get { return stringValue; }
            set { stringValue = value; }
        }
    }

    public class Service1 : IService1
    {
        public CookieContainer GetConnect(string username, string password)
        {
            return new CookieContainer() { BoolValue = true, StringValue = username + password };
        }
    }

Then click the Service1.svc file in solution , then press F5 , you can open WCF test Client.exe.

Test as below:

Answer 6

I share my code Iservice1.cs,Service1.svc.cs, client side code

IService1.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Web;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
namespace WcfService1
{
    // NOTE: You can use the "Rename" command on the "Refactor" menu to change the interface name "IService1" in both code and config file together.
    [ServiceContract]
    public interface IService1
    {

        // TODO: Add your service operations here

        [OperationContract]
        CookieContainer GetConnect(string uid, string password);

    }

    // Use a data contract as illustrated in the sample below to add composite types to service operations.
    
}

Service1.svc.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;
using System.ServiceModel;
using System.ServiceModel.Web;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Data;
using System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Xml;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization;


namespace WcfService1
{
    // NOTE: You can use the "Rename" command on the "Refactor" menu to change the class name "Service1" in code, svc and config file together.
    public class Service1 : IService1
    {
      public CookieContainer con;
      public CookieCollection GetCookies()
        {
            HttpWebRequest req;
            CookieCollection cc = new CookieCollection();
            req = null;

            req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://site5.way2sms.com/");
            req.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
            // req.CookieContainer.Add(cc);

            req.CookieContainer.Add(cc);
            req.KeepAlive = true;

            req.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11";
            req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
            req.Accept = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";

            req.Referer = "http://site5.way2sms.com/content/index.html";

            req.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
            req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = true;

            return ((HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse()).Cookies;
        }

        //public string GetConnect(string uid, string password)
        public CookieContainer GetConnect(string uid, string password)
        {
            HttpWebRequest req;
            HttpWebResponse res;
            Stream str;
            

            try
            {
                req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://site5.way2sms.com/Login1.action");
                req.Method = "POST";
                con = new CookieContainer();
                req.CookieContainer = con;
                req.CookieContainer.Add(GetCookies());
                req.KeepAlive = true;

                req.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11";
                req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
                req.Accept = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";

                req.Referer = "http://site5.way2sms.com/content/index.html";

                byte[] data = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetBytes("username=" + uid + "&password=" + password);
                req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(uid, password);
                req.ContentLength = data.Length;
                req.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
                req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = true;

                str = req.GetRequestStream();
                str.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
                str.Close();
                str.Flush();

                res = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();

                string iduri = System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(res.ResponseUri.Query).Get("id");

                if (iduri != "")
                {
                    // return "Success";
                    return con;
                }
                else
                {
                    res.Close();
                    return null;
                   // return "Fail";
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return null;
            }
        }

ClientSide code i.e. Windows phone 7

 svc.GetConnectCompleted += new EventHandler<GetConnectCompletedEventArgs>(svc_Get_Connected);
svc.GetConnectAsync(uid, password);



 void svc_Get_Connected(object send, GetConnectCompletedEventArgs e)
{
     CookieContainer con = e.Result;
}

My service didn't return Cookiecontainer object i.e. con