Writing cookies from CookieContainer to the IE cookie store using c#

Question

I am having a bit of trouble trying to save the cookies i receive in my .NET application onto IE cookie store.

I have a request (with other parameters, not shown)

HttpWebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(RequestString) as HttpWebRequest;

the response gets cookies.

[DllImport("wininet.dll", CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
        static extern bool InternetSetCookie(string UrlName, string CookieName, string CookieData, uint dwFlags, IntPtr dwReserved);

HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

                    foreach (Cookie cookie in response.Cookies)
                    {
                        InternetSetCookie(cookie.Domain, cookie.Name, cookie.Value, 2147484672, IntPtr.Zero);
                    }

I tried to follow Writing cookies from CookieContainer to the IE cookie store but i am not able to get InternetSetCookie to work. It just doesn't seem to create cookies locally.

Any suggestions?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 03 '15 at 13:27

I got this figured out ... looks like this is only sets the session cookies. Also, there must be a valid URL.

InternetSetCookie(ValidURL, cookie.Name, cookie.Value);

InternetSetCookie is bool and it was returning 'false', when i set a valid URL, it started returning 'True' and that seemed to be working for me.

Writing cookies from CookieContainer to the IE cookie store using c#

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