How can I get HttpOnly cookies in Windows Phone 8?

Question

I am working in a Windows Phone 8 PCL project. I am using a 3rd party REST API and I need to use a few HttpOnly cookies originated by the API. It seems like getting/access

Answer 1

There is also a second possibility - to manually go through response headers, grab and then parse Set-Cookie headers using a bunch of custom code.

It looks something like that, when you are going to match and save a single PHPSESSID cookie (assume LatestResponse is your HttpResponseMessage containing website response):

if (LatestResponse.Headers.ToString().IndexOf("Set-Cookie:") != -1) try
        {
            string sid = LatestResponse.Headers.ToString();
            sid = sid.Substring(sid.IndexOf("Set-Cookie:"), 128);
                if (sid.IndexOf("PHPSESSID=") != -1)
                {
                    settings.Values["SessionID"] = SessionID = sid.Substring(sid.IndexOf("PHPSESSID=") + 10, sid.IndexOf(';') - sid.IndexOf("PHPSESSID=") - 10);
                    handler.CookieContainer.Add(new Uri("http://example.com", UriKind.Absolute), new System.Net.Cookie("PHPSESSID", SessionID));
                }
        } catch (Exception e) { 
            // your exception handling
        }

Note this code inserts the cookie to CookieContainer for that object's life unless manually deleted. If you want to include it in a new object, just pull the right setting value and add it to your new container.