Struggling trying to get cookie out of response with HttpClient in .net 4.5

Question

I\'ve got the following code that works successfully. I can\'t figure out how to get the cookie out of the response. My goal is that I want to be able to set cookies in th

Answer 1

You can easily get a cookie value with the given URL.

private async Task GetCookieValue(string url, string cookieName)
{
    var cookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
    var uri = new Uri(url);
    using (var httpClientHandler = new HttpClientHandler
    {
        CookieContainer = cookieContainer
    })
    {
        using (var httpClient = new HttpClient(httpClientHandler))
        {
            await httpClient.GetAsync(uri);
            var cookie = cookieContainer.GetCookies(uri).Cast().FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == cookieName);
            return cookie?.Value;
        }
    }
}