WebRequest code not processing

Question

Am I doing something wrong, I'm trying to login but nothing is happen. Meaning, no error message and no login attempt is shown on the server.

 

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

      string strURL = "http://admin.domain.com/home/index.html?site_login_submit=1&redirect=&username=zzzz&password=zzz";
      System.Net.WebRequest req = null;

      try
      {
        req = WebRequest.Create(strURL);
        req.Method = "POST";
        req.Headers.Add("referer", "http://www.domain.com/");
        req.Timeout = 5000;
        WebResponse reqWebResponse = req.GetResponse();
        reqWebResponse.Close();
        linkSubmit.Text = "http://www.domain.com";
      }
      catch (Exception eq)
      {
        string sErr = "Cannot connect : " + eq.Message;
        MessageBox.Show(sErr, strURL, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Stop);
      }


    }

Answer 1

When you step through your code...does it hang at any point?

This is what I've been using to pull a webpage down, and it's been working fine:

        var httpRequest = WebRequest.Create("{YOUR URL HERE}");
        var httpResponse = httpRequest.GetResponse();

        if (httpResponse == null) return;

        var buffer = new byte[8*1024];
        var responseStream = httpResponse.GetResponseStream();

        if (responseStream == null) return;

        var contentStringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        var bytesRead = responseStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);

        while (bytesRead > 0)
        {
          var content = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(buffer, 0, bytesRead);

          contentStringBuilder.Append(content);

          bytesRead = responseStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
        }

        var contents = contentStringBuilder.ToString();

Answer 2

It does not hang and not errors. Basically i'm trying to use the POST method to login to my admin area. The link works if I copy and past it into a desktop browser windows with all form querystrings attached.

Answer 3

I would try removing the "POST" portion.  Posting to a webpage implies that you have form data you are trying to pass though...which you are not.  If you do need to use "POST", try this link that has a working example:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.method.aspx

If that isn't what you need, can you please try the snippet I posted, or modify yours to remove the "POST" operation, and add in the GetResponseStream() portion?

Answer 4

how would I output the response after using your code? I want to check to make sure its actually logging

Answer 5

 var contents = contentStringBuilder.ToString();

The contents string will have the response, which will most likely be the HTML source of the resulting page.  You can search this for what you need.