WebRequest and Form Authentication

[Tony]

Hi all, I need some help please using WebRequest with a page that requires
you to log in through a different page.

I have a roster that is located at our internal address of
http://wfmmel01/WebETC/schedule.view.asp?. If you type this address in
directly, you are taken to a login page where you enter your username and
password. This address is
http://wfmmel01/WebETC/employee.logi...tErrNumber=501. The HTML for the
form looks like this:

<form name="LOG01" action="/WebETC/employee.login.asp?" method="POST"
onSubmit="return validateLOG01(this)">
<input type="hidden" name="Validate" ="1">
<input type="text" name="username" class="formfield" maxlength="9" value="">
<input type="password" name="password" class="formfield"
onFocus="this.select()" size="21" maxlength="21">

Once you click the login button, it takes you to the roster.

Using WebRequest, how can I go straight to the roster and supply the
username and password? I don't know much about cookies or encoding. I just
want a simple little solution that works.

Can anybody help me please?

Thanks

Tony

[Joerg Jooss]

Tony wrote:

Hi all, I need some help please using WebRequest with a page that
requires you to log in through a different page.

I have a roster that is located at our internal address of
http://wfmmel01/WebETC/schedule.view.asp?. If you type this address in
directly, you are taken to a login page where you enter your username
and password. This address is
http://wfmmel01/WebETC/employee.logi...tErrNumber=501. The HTML
for the form looks like this:

<form name="LOG01" action="/WebETC/employee.login.asp?" method="POST"
onSubmit="return validateLOG01(this)">
<input type="hidden" name="Validate" ="1">
<input type="text" name="username" class="formfield" maxlength="9"
value=""> <input type="password" name="password" class="formfield"
onFocus="this.select()" size="21" maxlength="21">

Once you click the login button, it takes you to the roster.

Using WebRequest, how can I go straight to the roster and supply the
username and password? I don't know much about cookies or encoding. I
just want a simple little solution that works.
Can anybody help me please?

Well, I tried to help you before, but if you don't try it or tell use where
you're stuck...

Cheers,

--
Joerg Jooss
jo*********@gmx.net

[Tony]

Hi Joerg

You're right. I suck at this. I'm going back to C# for Dummies. Web
programming is just way too complex and I can't find a source anywhere, be it
web or a book, that actually explains it step by step. Considering I (and I
assume lots of other people) don't understand GET, POST, encoding,
cookies...the only code snippets I can find are totally incomprehensible to
me. Maybe I'll just switch to VB and join all the other people who like to
call themselves programmers but really aren't.

"Joerg Jooss" wrote:

Tony wrote:

Hi all, I need some help please using WebRequest with a page that
requires you to log in through a different page.

I have a roster that is located at our internal address of
http://wfmmel01/WebETC/schedule.view.asp?. If you type this address in
directly, you are taken to a login page where you enter your username
and password. This address is
http://wfmmel01/WebETC/employee.logi...tErrNumber=501. The HTML
for the form looks like this:

<form name="LOG01" action="/WebETC/employee.login.asp?" method="POST"
onSubmit="return validateLOG01(this)">
<input type="hidden" name="Validate" ="1">
<input type="text" name="username" class="formfield" maxlength="9"
value=""> <input type="password" name="password" class="formfield"
onFocus="this.select()" size="21" maxlength="21">

Once you click the login button, it takes you to the roster.

Using WebRequest, how can I go straight to the roster and supply the
username and password? I don't know much about cookies or encoding. I
just want a simple little solution that works.
Can anybody help me please?

Well, I tried to help you before, but if you don't try it or tell use where
you're stuck...

Cheers,

--
Joerg Jooss
jo*********@gmx.net