Logging into a website from a Windows Desktop Gadget

Question

I'm developing a Windows Desktop Gadget. From within the gadget, I have to login to an external website, get a response from a specific page and display required information from it.

I have implemented the request using jQuery's $.post(). First, I send the post parameters to the application and it receives a 302 response. After that, when I send subsequent jQuery $.get() requests to other pages, it is not posting the required cookies.

How can I resolve this?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 08 '11 at 17:39

Windows Desktop Gadgets don't automatically store cookies from XMLHttpRequests. You should be able to use getResponseHeader("Set-Cookie") and then set them for future requests by specifying them in the headers config for $.ajax.

For more information, see the HTTP cookie (Wikipedia) and jQuery.ajax().

Neeraj · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-09T10:53:45.367

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Check this tute on using cookies with windows gadgets..

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaimer/archive/2006/09/28/making-rest-calls-and-using-session-state-from-a-sidebar-gadget_2e00_2e00_2e00_.aspx

edited Jun 09 '11 at 10:53

answered Jun 09 '11 at 07:14

Neeraj

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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaimer/archive/2006/09/28/making-rest-calls-and-using-session-state-from-a-sidebar-gadget_2e00__2e00__2e00_.aspx – Neeraj Jun 09 '11 at 07:41
@Neeraj editing your post would've been a better response. :) – Emil Ahlbäck Jun 09 '11 at 09:33
@eml :Much faster this way... ;) – Neeraj Jun 09 '11 at 10:38
@elm: finally gave in to your arguments... :) – Neeraj Jun 09 '11 at 10:54

Logging into a website from a Windows Desktop Gadget

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