Is it possible to transfer authentication from Webbrowser to WebRequest

Question

I\'m using webbrowser control to login any site. And then i want to download some sub page html using WebRequest (or WebClient). This links must requires authentication.

Answer 1

If found this solution. Simple create a Class.cs file with the information below and call the static GetCookieInternal function.

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Net;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Security;
using System.Security.Permissions;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;


internal sealed class NativeMethods
{
    #region enums

    public enum ErrorFlags
    {
        ERROR_INSUFFICIENT_BUFFER = 122,
        ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER = 87,
        ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS = 259
    }

    public enum InternetFlags
    {
        INTERNET_COOKIE_HTTPONLY = 8192, //Requires IE 8 or higher   
        INTERNET_COOKIE_THIRD_PARTY = 131072,
        INTERNET_FLAG_RESTRICTED_ZONE = 16
    }

    #endregion

    #region DLL Imports

    [SuppressUnmanagedCodeSecurity, SecurityCritical, DllImport("wininet.dll", EntryPoint = "InternetGetCookieExW", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, SetLastError = true, ExactSpelling = true)]
    internal static extern bool InternetGetCookieEx([In] string Url, [In] string cookieName, [Out] StringBuilder cookieData, [In, Out] ref uint pchCookieData, uint flags, IntPtr reserved);

    #endregion
}


/// 
   
/// WebBrowserCookie?   
/// webBrowser1.Document.CookieHttpOnlyCookie   
///    
public class FullWebBrowserCookie : WebBrowser
{

    [SecurityCritical]
    public static string GetCookieInternal(Uri uri, bool throwIfNoCookie)
    {
        uint pchCookieData = 0;
        string url = UriToString(uri);
        uint flag = (uint)NativeMethods.InternetFlags.INTERNET_COOKIE_HTTPONLY;

        //Gets the size of the string builder   
        if (NativeMethods.InternetGetCookieEx(url, null, null, ref pchCookieData, flag, IntPtr.Zero))
        {
            pchCookieData++;
            StringBuilder cookieData = new StringBuilder((int)pchCookieData);

            //Read the cookie   
            if (NativeMethods.InternetGetCookieEx(url, null, cookieData, ref pchCookieData, flag, IntPtr.Zero))
            {
                DemandWebPermission(uri);
                return cookieData.ToString();
            }
        }

        int lastErrorCode = Marshal.GetLastWin32Error();

        if (throwIfNoCookie || (lastErrorCode != (int)NativeMethods.ErrorFlags.ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS))
        {
            throw new Win32Exception(lastErrorCode);
        }

        return null;
    }

    private static void DemandWebPermission(Uri uri)
    {
        string uriString = UriToString(uri);

        if (uri.IsFile)
        {
            string localPath = uri.LocalPath;
            new FileIOPermission(FileIOPermissionAccess.Read, localPath).Demand();
        }
        else
        {
            new WebPermission(NetworkAccess.Connect, uriString).Demand();
        }
    }

    private static string UriToString(Uri uri)
    {
        if (uri == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("uri");
        }

        UriComponents components = (uri.IsAbsoluteUri ? UriComponents.AbsoluteUri : UriComponents.SerializationInfoString);
        return new StringBuilder(uri.GetComponents(components, UriFormat.SafeUnescaped), 2083).ToString();
    }
}   

Sample:

var cookies = FullWebBrowserCookie.GetCookieInternal(webBrowser1.Url, false);
WebClient wc = new WebClient();
wc.Headers.Add("Cookie: " + cookies);
wc.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
byte[] result = wc.UploadData("", "POST", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData));