How to read cookie from Windows Application C#?

I think irrespective of cookie being written in PHP or ASP.NET, you can access the cookies for different program but accessing the cookie in windows application is little strange, what is your requirement? Can you explain and why you need to access it into windows?

Irrespective of what is your purpose this article can help you http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.cookiecontainer.aspx

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Good Day Sundermagar

This is a bit strange for me, But anyway this is how its done
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.application.getcookie.aspx

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Hi Seo,

Thanks for your reply!!

The problem is something like this:

I am consuming a webservice running in PHP through a Windows application which uploads the contacts from outlook like facebook finder. Now I want to restricts user to run application only those who has logged in to the website. for that i am creating a cookie on login.

Now I want to check when windows apps runs if the cookie is present then I will get the userid and upload the contacts to respective users account.

Thanks,
Sunder

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Thanks Sunder,

Did you try above link to access the cookies?

I hope those links will help you.

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Hi Sheo,

Your solutions is perfect but I have an issue accessing the cookie with this. Let me clear understand the scenario.

1. Login into php application. On login I am creating cookie named 'userid'
2. From win app I am creating webrequest with the same URL of login page. But I am not getting that cookie 'userid' I only get PHPSSID which is i think the application session id.

Ex:

Login URL www.demourl.com/login.php
Once logged in generating webrequest from win app
www.demourl.com/login.php.

Please let me know if you have any deeper idea. It would be really helpful for me.

Thanks,
Sunder

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Hi Sheo,

After fighting with the issue I reached to conclusion that because My cookie is setting after user logged in so I am not able to get the cookie through WebRequest.

Once I logged in I set the cookie but again I am creating a Webrequest which means its a new request to the server so it will ask for the credentials to set the cookie which is not supplied so cookie will not get into webrequest.

Now I thought of reading Cookie from local machine all the cookie from local machine. do you have any idea how to read cookie from local machine using C# in windows application?

Thanks,
Sunder

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