[MonoTouch] HttpWebRequest behavior differ from "pure" .NET

[Nic Wise]

What happens if you run it in mono on your mac?

Could isolate it between a windows vrs mono vrs monotouch issue.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 22:20, thecoachfr <alexandre.fau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to implement a request to a web site with login in order to
> retrieve some html data.
>
> I have a bunch of code that actually works well in .NET (I means I can login
> to the web site and have the expect result).
> When I try the exact same code with monotouch (from the same computer) the
> request never works.
>
> Basically I do this :
>           public static void Main()
>       {
>           CredentialCache cCache = new CredentialCache();
>           var cookies = new CookieContainer();
>           Connect("http://myWebSite:90/", cCache, cookies);
>           Connect("http://myWebSite:90/login.php", cCache, cookies);
>           Connect("http://myWebSite:90/settings.php", cCache, cookies);
>           Console.ReadLine();
>       }
>
>       private static void Connect(String url, CredentialCache
> cCache, CookieContainer cookies)
>       {
>           HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
>           // Set the Method property of the request to POST.
>           request.Method = "POST";
>           // Create POST data and convert it to a byte array.
>           string postData = "login=login&passwd=passwd";
>           byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
>           // Set the ContentType property of the WebRequest.
>           request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
>           // Set the ContentLength property of the WebRequest.
>           request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
>           request.CookieContainer = cookies;
>           request.Accept =
> "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";
>           request.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1;
> WOW64)AppleWebKit/535.1(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.112Safari/535.1";
>           request.Credentials = cCache;
>           request.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
>           request.KeepAlive = true;
>           request.MaximumAutomaticRedirections = 50;
>           // Get the request stream.
>           Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
>           dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
>           dataStream.Close();
>           // Get the response.
>           HttpWebResponse response =
> (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
>           cookies.Add(response.Cookies);
>           cookies.Add(new Uri("http://myWebSite:90/settings.php"),
> response.Cookies);
>           cookies.Add(new Uri("http://myWebSite:90/login.php"),
> response.Cookies);
>           cookies.Add(new Uri("http://myWebSite:90/"), response.Cookies);
>           // Get the stream containing content returned by the server.
>           dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
>           StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
>           string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
>           // Display the content.
>           Console.WriteLine("resp = " + responseFromServer);
>           // Clean up the streams.
>           reader.Close();
>           dataStream.Close();
>           response.Close();
>       }
>   }
>
> PS: I had some redirect trouble that why I handle it by my self.
>
> When it works (with .NET on windows) that code display some html code.
> With mono the login process never succeed and of course I have no answer.
> I have the latest mono version (downloaded yesterday).
>
> I real don't understand why I can't make mono works with my code ...
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks for you help
>
> @lex
>
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