How can I communicate with a webpage on the low level.. (aka using GET, HTTP/1.1, Hos

[trend]

Hello, I need to communicate with a webpage to authenticate a user via "Basic" authentication.

 

If I do this via telnet servername.com 80 here is how the converstation would go..

 

 

me:

GET /FooService/basiconly/Service1.asmx HTTP/1.1

Accept: */*

Host: localhost:8100

Connection: Keep-Alive

 

The server responds with a challenge:

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="Login_page", nonce="Ny8yLzIwMDIgMzoyNjoyNCBQTQ", opaque="0000000000000000", stale=false, algorithm=MD5, qop="auth"

 

Then I reply

GET /FooService/basiconly/Service1.asmx HTTP/1.1

Accept: */*

Host: localhost:8100

Authorization: Digest username="test", realm="RassocDigestSample", qop="auth", algorithm="MD5", uri="/FooService/basiconly/Service1.asmx", nonce="Ny8yLzIwMDIgMzoyNjoyNCBQTQ", nc=00000001, cnonce="c51b5139556f939768f770dab8e5277a", opaque="0000000000000000", response="afa30c6445a14e2817a423ca4a143792"

 

 

 

 

 

So basically I need to know how to custome make the request and recieve the answers. (I am not talking about getting HTML data.. I am talking about talking directly to the webserver before the HTML data comes into play)

 

 

thanks!

Lee

[trend]

Figure it out..

 

You have to use the:

Imports System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection

library

[Joe Mamma]

I am not sure if this will help. But a little over a year ago cyclonebri needed to script interaction with a website to gather metrics. I wrote a testbed for him here that utilized System.Net, specifically the HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse classes.

 

Take a look at the class posted in the last response.

[Joe Mamma]

By the way . . . cyclonebri are you still around? did that work for you?

[trend]

Very cool!

 

I did something like:

 

   Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
       Dim client As New WebClient
       Dim username As String = "myusername"
       Dim password As String = "mypw"


       Dim bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(username & ":" & password)
       client.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " & Convert.ToBase64String(bytes))

       Dim googlelogin = "https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom"
       Dim feedStream As Stream = client.OpenRead(googlelogin)
       Dim reader As New StreamReader(feedStream)
       Dim feedAsXml As String = reader.ReadToEnd
       feedStream.Close()

       textbox2.Text = feedAsXml

       End Sub

 

But the only problem with this is.. I want to open up a new IE window.. so the user can see the results. (If the webpage is downloaded the opened from C:\, the user will not see the pictures or style sheets that were refered too).

So basically I would want the user to end up at:

https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom

(as well as logged in via my header.add )

 

How can I do this?

 

thanks!

 

Lee