When I run the code below, the web server tells me that I need to
enable cookies. Can anyone tell me what might be causing that? I'm
trying to POST userid and password to their login web page. Thanks!
Dim CookieJar As CookieContainer = New CookieContainer()
Dim WebReq As HttpWebRequest
Dim WebResp As HttpWebResponse
Dim StrmRdr As StreamReader
Dim StrmWrtr As StreamWriter
Dim PostParms As String
Dim URLString As String
Dim HTML as String
= "https://www.nordstrombanking.com/onlineserv/HB/Login.cgi"
WebReq = CType(WebRequest.Create(New Uri(URLString)),
HttpWebRequest)
WebReq.CookieContainer = CookieJar
WebReq.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials
WebReq.UserAgent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows
NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)"
WebReq.KeepAlive = True
WebReq.Headers.Set("Pragma", "no-cache")
WebReq.Timeout = 30000
WebReq.Method = "POST"
WebReq.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
PostParms = "userNumber=12345678&password=87654321&OK=subm it&"
& _
"runmode=SIGN_IN&LAST_ACTIVE_URL="
WebReq.ContentLength = PostParms.Length
StrmWrtr = New StreamWriter(WebReq.GetRequestStream)
StrmWrtr.Write(PostParms)
StrmWrtr.Close()
WebResp = WebReq.GetResponse
StrmRdr = New StreamReader(WebResp.GetResponseStream)
HTML = StrmRdr.ReadToEnd.Trim
StrmRdr.Close()
WebResp.Close()
The source for the web page is:
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" Content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" Content="Tuesday, 14-Dec-1971 04:30:00
GMT">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Internet Banking Timeout</title> <!-- for non-nav pages -->
<!--
<script language="JavaScript">
ldt = new Date;
inSubmit = 0;
function dofocus() {
document.Login.userNumber.focus();
inSubmit = 0;
}
function clear() {
document.Login.userNumber.value = "";
document.Login.password.value = "";
dofocus();
}
function formField1()
{
Ctrl = document.Login.userNumber;
if (Ctrl.value == "")
{
validatePrompt (Ctrl, "Please enter a valid Customer Number.")
return (false);
}
else
return (true);
}
function formField2()
{
bName = navigator.appName; // get version of Navigator
bVer = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
// if Netscape 2.0 or below just get out
if (bName == "Netscape" && bVer < 3)
return (true);
Ctrl = document.Login.password;
if (Ctrl.value == "")
{
validatePrompt (Ctrl, "Please enter a Password.")
return (false);
}
else
return (true);
}
function runSubmit (form)
{
if (!formField1())
return false;
if (!formField2())
return false;
// Due to the re-direct from the timeout warning, this no longer
works.
// form.LAST_ACTIVE_URL.value = window.location.search;
document.cookie = "signonValid=TRUE; path=/";
return true;
}
function validatePrompt (Ctrl, PromptStr)
{
alert(PromptStr);
Ctrl.focus();
return;
}
// -->
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor=white leftmargin=3 onload="dofocus()">
<div align="center">
<br><br>
<span class="mainTitle">Internet Banking Timeout</span>
<form autocomplete="OFF" name="Login" method="post"
action="./Login.cgi" onsubmit="return runSubmit(this)">
<table width="500" border="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<span class="subtitle">For security reasons, your Internet Banking
session has timed out. Please login again by entering your customer
number and password here...<BR><BR>If you would like to increase your
session timeout please do so by clicking on the User Options button
inside of Internet Banking.</span>
<br><br>
</td>
<td valign="top" width="15"><br></td>
<td valign="top">
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<span class="sectionTitle">Customer Number</span><br>
<input type="hidden" name="runmode" value="SIGN_IN">
<input type="hidden" name="LAST_ACTIVE_URL" value="">
<input name="userNumber" size="16" maxlength="32">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align=center>
<span class="sectionTitle">Password</span><br>
<input type="password" name="password" size="16" maxlength="8">
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" valign="middle">
<input name="OK" type="submit" value=" Enter ">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
<!-- end of IB Timeout -->
</body>
</html>
