HttpWebRequest and Session Information

[ALA]

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.Cre ate(url);
request.CookieC ontainer = new CookieContainer ();
HttpCookie sessionCookie =
HttpContext.Cur rent.Request.Co okies["ASP.NET_Sessio nId"];
request.CookieC ontainer.Add(ne w Cookie(sessCook ie.Name,
sessCookie.Valu e, "/", "localhost" ));
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebRespons e)request.GetRe sponse();

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]

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.Cre ate("login.aspx ");
request.CookieC ontainer = myContainer;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebRespons e)request.GetRe sponse();
.......

request = (HttpWebRequest )WebRequest.Cre ate("secondpage .aspx");
request.CookieC ontainer = myContainer;
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebRespons e)request.GetRe sponse();
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_Session Id
So HttpContext.Cur rent.Request.Co okies["ASP.NET_Sessio nId"];
should always be null.

George.


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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.Cre ate(url);
request.CookieC ontainer = new CookieContainer ();
HttpCookie sessionCookie =
HttpContext.Cur rent.Request.Co okies["ASP.NET_Sessio nId"];
request.CookieC ontainer.Add(ne w Cookie(sessCook ie.Name,
sessCookie.Valu e, "/", "localhost" ));
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebRespons e)request.GetRe sponse();

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