And that would be the naive way to do it:
httpWebRequest.CookieContainer.SetCookies( webBrowser.Document.Url, webBrowser.Document.Cookie.Replace(';', ',') ); // THIS CODE IS WRONG!!
The problem is the HttpOnly cookies that are missing from Document.Cookie for security reasons.
The HttpOnly cookies are probably the most important ones that you need.
This article explains how to get them:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/RetrieveHttponlyCookies.aspx
Here is a more compact version of the function for C#:
[DllImport("wininet.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)] static extern bool InternetGetCookieEx(string pchURL, string pchCookieName, StringBuilder pchCookieData, ref uint pcchCookieData, int dwFlags, IntPtr lpReserved); const int INTERNET_COOKIE_HTTPONLY = 0x00002000; public static string GetGlobalCookies(string uri) { uint datasize = 1024; StringBuilder cookieData = new StringBuilder((int)datasize); if (InternetGetCookieEx(uri, null, cookieData, ref datasize, INTERNET_COOKIE_HTTPONLY, IntPtr.Zero) && cookieData.Length > 0) { return cookieData.ToString().Replace(';', ','); } else { return null; } }And the usage would be:
httpWebRequest.CookieContainer.SetCookies( webBrowser.Document.Url, GetGlobalCookies(webBrowser.Document.Url.AbsoluteUri) );
Wonderful tip! I spent about four hours finding this at internet, even my googlfu is powerful(sorry that ;)) This is a very important tip for all people making web scraping!
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ReplyDeleteHow do you use this? it doesnt work for me
ReplyDeleteI created a new Instance of
WebBrowser webBrowser = new WebBrowser();
webBrowser.Url = new Uri(url)
httpWebRequest.CookieContainer.SetCookies(
webBrowser.Document.Url,
GetGlobalCookies(webBrowser.Document.Url.AbsoluteUri)
);
How do you use this? it doesnt work for me
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ReplyDeleteHere's a vb.net for anyone who wants it.
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Private Shared Function InternetGetCookieEx(ByVal pchURL As String, ByVal pchCookieName As String, ByVal pchCookieData As StringBuilder, ByRef pcchCookieData As UInteger, ByVal dwFlags As Integer, ByVal lpReserved As IntPtr) As Boolean
End Function
Const INTERNET_COOKIE_HTTPONLY As Integer = &H2000
Public Shared Function GetGlobalCookies(ByVal uri As String) As String
Dim datasize As UInteger = 1024
Dim cookieData As New StringBuilder(CInt(datasize))
If InternetGetCookieEx(uri, Nothing, cookieData, datasize, INTERNET_COOKIE_HTTPONLY, IntPtr.Zero) AndAlso cookieData.Length > 0 Then
Return cookieData.ToString().Replace(";"c, ","c)
Else
Return Nothing
End If
End Function
how to use this code
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ReplyDeletethank you so muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuchhhhhhhhhh , i can solved my problem but at first when i use your code i had an error that the object reference is null on c# when i try to set cookies from webbrowser controler to httpwebrequest , then i found a solution that is :
ReplyDeletebefore use the blow code :
PostRequest.CookieContainer.SetCookies(webBrowser1.Document.Url,GetGlobalCookies(webBrowser1.Document.Url.AbsoluteUri));
use this code:
PostRequest.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
and then the problem solved.
so thank you a lot again.
It returns the cookies when its not logged in, but once it is logged in, it returns empty, why ?
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