Does webclient handle cookie?

Question

_{Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:39 PM}

Does webclient keep a internal cookie container and save/post cookies so the users don't need to handle cookie?

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_{Tuesday, August 3, 2010 11:03 PM ✅Answered}

WebClient does not have built-in support for cookies.

The purpose of WebClient is to provide an easy-to-use wrapper for HttpWebRequest.  You can use HttpWebRequest instead if you need more functionality.  It is not all that much harder to use.  HttpWebRequest has support for cookies.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebrequest.cookiecontainer.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpwebresponse.cookies.aspx

_{Tuesday, August 3, 2010 11:40 PM ✅Answered | 2 votes}

You can modify the WebClient to support cookies:

public class CookedWebClient : WebClient
{

  CookieContainer cookies = new CookieContainer();

  public CookieContainer Cookies{ get{ return cookies; } }

  protected override WebRequest GetWebRequest(Uri address)
  {

    WebRequest request = base.GetWebRequest(address);

    if(request.GetType() == typeof(HttpWebRequest))
      ((HttpWebRequest)request).CookieContainer = cookies;

    return request;

  }

}