HttpWebResponse.Cookies empty despite Set-Cookie Header (no-redirect)

Question

I\'m struggling to figure out what is wrong here. I\'m sending login information, I can see the Set-Cookie in the Header with the correct value, but the Cookies collection

Answer 1

Looking on other answers I improved incorrect cookie handling. Unlike those answers this one automatically handles all cookie properties (such as expired, secure, etc.) and works with all range of cookies (even when there are more than 1 incorrect cookie).

It's implemented as extension method and can be used in the following way:

//...
            using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
            {
                request.FixCookies(response);
//...

FixCookies() extension method:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Net;

namespace AG.WebHelpers
{
    static public class ExtensionMethods
    {
        static public void FixCookies(this HttpWebRequest request, HttpWebResponse response)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < response.Headers.Count; i++)
            {
                string name = response.Headers.GetKey(i);
                if (name != "Set-Cookie")
                    continue;
                string value = response.Headers.Get(i);
                var cookieCollection = ParseCookieString(value, () => request.Host.Split(':')[0]);
                response.Cookies.Add(cookieCollection);
            }
        }

        static private CookieCollection ParseCookieString(string cookieString, Func getCookieDomainIfItIsMissingInCookie)
        {
            bool secure = false;
            bool httpOnly = false;

            string domainFromCookie = null;
            string path = null;
            string expiresString = null;

            Dictionary cookiesValues = new Dictionary();

            var cookieValuePairsStrings = cookieString.Split(';');
            foreach(string cookieValuePairString in cookieValuePairsStrings)
            {
                var pairArr = cookieValuePairString.Split('=');
                int pairArrLength = pairArr.Length;
                for (int i = 0; i < pairArrLength; i++)
                {
                    pairArr[i] = pairArr[i].Trim();
                }
                string propertyName = pairArr[0];
                if (pairArrLength == 1)
                {
                    if (propertyName.Equals("httponly", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                        httpOnly = true;
                    else if (propertyName.Equals("secure", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                        secure = true;
                    else
                        throw new InvalidOperationException(string.Format("Unknown cookie property \"{0}\". All cookie is \"{1}\"", propertyName, cookieString));
                    continue;
                }

                string propertyValue = pairArr[1];
                if (propertyName.Equals("expires", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                    expiresString = propertyValue;
                else if (propertyName.Equals("domain", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                    domainFromCookie = propertyValue;
                else if (propertyName.Equals("path", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                    path = propertyValue;
                else
                    cookiesValues.Add(propertyName, propertyValue);
            }

            DateTime expiresDateTime;
            if (expiresString != null)
            {
                expiresDateTime = DateTime.Parse(expiresString);
            }
            else
            {
                expiresDateTime = DateTime.MinValue;
            }
            if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(domainFromCookie))
            {
                domainFromCookie = getCookieDomainIfItIsMissingInCookie();
            }

            CookieCollection cookieCollection = new CookieCollection();
            foreach (var pair in cookiesValues)
            {
                Cookie cookie = new Cookie(pair.Key, pair.Value, path, domainFromCookie);
                cookie.Secure = secure;
                cookie.HttpOnly = httpOnly;
                cookie.Expires = expiresDateTime;

                cookieCollection.Add(cookie);
            }
            return cookieCollection;
        }
    }
}