C# make POST request via internet explorer and retrieve response back in to C#?

Question

I am writing a C# application whereby I formulate the POST strings in C# but the website I am POSTing recognizes that I am not using IE, Chrome or Firefox. Is there a way that I can "use" Internet Explorer (or either of the other two browsers) to make the POST request and then retrieve the response back in the C# (to parse the HTML)?

I have this currently:

using (var wb = new WebClient())
{
    var data = new NameValueCollection();
    //Any key-value arguments for the POST are stored in data
    var response = wb.UploadValues(url, "POST", data);
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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Yes. Forge the User-Agent HTTP header. The User-Agent header basically tells the receiving server what program is sending the packets to it.

See this StackOverflow answer on how to do just that.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:13

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answered May 12 '14 at 00:55

eshs

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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    client.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.UserAgent] = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/15.0.874.121 Safari/535.2";

place after response

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edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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answered May 12 '14 at 00:57

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Why after response? Shouldn't this need to modify the wb.UploadValus() line? :) – user997112 May 12 '14 at 01:04

C# make POST request via internet explorer and retrieve response back in to C#?

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