posting daqta to an asp.net page from a console application

[Ollie]

I have an aspx page that contains a web control that contains 2 text boxes
and button to submit the text. I am trying to submit text and collect the
response from a console application, but it is not working correctly it is
just returning the original page I am expecting it to return the a
subsequent page (when a successfull login has occurred), the code is shown
below.

Does anyone know why it is not working correctly?

I used the Fiddler app to debug the HTTP header to work out the posting data
( nice app Eric :) )

Stream requestWriter = null;
string postData =
"_ctl1:username =ollie&_ctl1:pa ssword=XXXXX&_c tl1:SigninBtn.x =0&_ctl1:Signin B
tn.y=0";
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding() ;
byte[] byteData = encoding.GetByt es(postData);
HttpWebRequest objRequest =
(HttpWebRequest )WebRequest.Cre ate("http://localhost/XXXX/default.aspx");
objRequest.Meth od = "POST";
objRequest.Cont entLength = postData.Length ;
objRequest.Cont entType = "applicatio n/x-www-form-urlencoded";
objRequest.Cook ieContainer = new CookieContainer ();

try
{
requestWriter = objRequest.GetR equestStream();
requestWriter.W rite(byteData, 0, byteData.Length );
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.Console. WriteLine(e.Mes sage);
}
finally
{
requestWriter.C lose();
}

HttpWebResponse objResponse = (HttpWebRespons e)objRequest.Ge tResponse();
StreamReader responseReader = null;
responseReader = new StreamReader(ob jResponse.GetRe sponseStream()) ;
string result = responseReader. ReadToEnd();

System.Console. WriteLine(resul t);
System.IO.Strea mWriter fileWriter = null;
fileWriter =
System.IO.File. CreateText("c:\ \work\\XXXX\\te stpostdata.html ");
fileWriter.Writ e(result);
fileWriter.Clos e();

System.Console. ReadLine();
Cheers and thanks in advance

Ollie

[bruce barker]

posting to an aspx.net page requires that you first do a Get and parse the
html for the viewstate value, so that you have a valid __Viewstate to
postback.

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I have an aspx page that contains a web control that contains 2 text boxes
and button to submit the text. I am trying to submit text and collect the
response from a console application, but it is not working correctly it is
just returning the original page I am expecting it to return the a
subsequent page (when a successfull login has occurred), the code is shown
below.

Does anyone know why it is not working correctly?

I used the Fiddler app to debug the HTTP header to work out the posting data ( nice app Eric :) )

Stream requestWriter = null;
string postData =
"_ctl1:username =ollie&_ctl1:pa ssword=XXXXX&_c tl1:SigninBtn.x =0&_ctl1:Signin B tn.y=0";
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding() ;
byte[] byteData = encoding.GetByt es(postData);
HttpWebRequest objRequest =
(HttpWebRequest )WebRequest.Cre ate("http://localhost/XXXX/default.aspx");
objRequest.Meth od = "POST";
objRequest.Cont entLength = postData.Length ;
objRequest.Cont entType = "applicatio n/x-www-form-urlencoded";
objRequest.Cook ieContainer = new CookieContainer ();

try
{
requestWriter = objRequest.GetR equestStream();
requestWriter.W rite(byteData, 0, byteData.Length );
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.Console. WriteLine(e.Mes sage);
}
finally
{
requestWriter.C lose();
}

HttpWebResponse objResponse = (HttpWebRespons e)objRequest.Ge tResponse();
StreamReader responseReader = null;
responseReader = new StreamReader(ob jResponse.GetRe sponseStream()) ;
string result = responseReader. ReadToEnd();

System.Console. WriteLine(resul t);
System.IO.Strea mWriter fileWriter = null;
fileWriter =
System.IO.File. CreateText("c:\ \work\\XXXX\\te stpostdata.html ");
fileWriter.Writ e(result);
fileWriter.Clos e();

System.Console. ReadLine();
Cheers and thanks in advance

Ollie