response.Cookies is always empty (length: 0)
c#, cookies, httpwebrequest
Solution
Just read it from Request.Cookies collection. Only new cookies added on the server side are available in Response.Cookies. Request.Cookies contains all (Request+Response) Cookies.
Considering above it seems like there are no additional cookies added by the server which is why you getting no cookies in the response. Does that make sense ?
Problem
I'm having issues with handling cookies when using HttpWebRequest. I'm making a program to manage my account on a small community website. I am able to make get and post request (successfully logged in, etc), but I can't maintain a session cookie to stay logged in. My code looks like this : ``` this.cookies = new CookieCollection(); request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(requestURL); request.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer(); ... request.CookieContainer.Add(cookies); ASCIIEncoding encodage = new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding(); byte[] data = encodage.GetBytes(Post); request.AllowAutoRedirect = true; request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; request.UserAgent = "whatever"; request.Accept = "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"; request.Method = "POST"; request.Headers.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate,sdch"); request.AutomaticDecompression = DecompressionMethods.GZip | DecompressionMethods.Deflate; request.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = true; request.ContentLength = data.Length; newStream = request.GetRequestStream(); request.ProtocolVersion = HttpVersion.Version11; newStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length); ... HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse(); this.cookies = response.Cookies; ... ``` response.Cookies is always empty (length: 0) and it shouldn't. Could anyone tell what I'm doing wrong? Why are there no cookies associated with the response? thanks in advance