I work on a Xamarin.Forms project where I call some WebServices that using cookies, as they was intially made for a website. There are some webservices that only return cookies, but ohers need to receive cookies for working well.
For example, the Login webservice gets a JSON and returns 2 cookies, while the Logout webservice gets an "empty" JSON, the 2 previous cookies and must return an updated value for one of these cookies.
I based on the following link to manage cookies with HttpClient: Struggling trying to get cookie out of response with HttpClient in .net 4.5
My problem is that I can send a cookie to a webservice, I can receive the returned cookie by a webservice, but I can't receive any "updated" cookie if I've sent it before the call...
The code of the call to the Login webservice looks like this:
public async Task Login()
{
Uri uri = new Uri("http://www.website.com/Login");
CookieContainer cookies = new CookieContainer();
HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();
handler.CookieContainer = cookies;
var httpClient = new HttpClient(handler);
var jsonParam = "{\"data\":{\"device\":\"xxx\",\"login\":\"my@email.com\",\"password\":\"password\"}}";
HttpContent httpContent = new StringContent(jsonParam);
httpContent.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-HTTP-Method-Override", "PUT");
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
try
{
HttpResponseMessage httpResponse = httpClient.PostAsync(uri), httpContent).Result;
//Treatment of the recovered cookies
IEnumerable<Cookie> responseCookies = cookies.GetCookies(uri).Cast<Cookie>();
foreach (Cookie cookie in responseCookies)
{
Debug.WriteLine(cookie.Name + " : " + cookie.Value);
wsCookies.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>(cookie.Name, cookie.Value));
}
if (httpResponse.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var responseText = await httpResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
}
}
=> it works well: I get the expected cookies: SESSIONID=xxx and USERID=xxx
The code of my Logout method looks like this:
public async Task Logout(String test)
{
Uri uri = new Uri("http://www.website.com/Logout");
CookieContainer cookies = new CookieContainer();
HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();
handler.CookieContainer = cookies;
var httpClient = new HttpClient(handler);
var jsonParam = "{\"data\":{}}";
HttpContent httpContent = new StringContent(jsonParam);
httpContent.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("application/json");
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-HTTP-Method-Override", "GET");
httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
//Retrieving cookies to send
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kvpCookie in wsCookies)
{
cookies.Add(uri, new Cookie(kvpCookie.Key, kvpCookie.Value));
}
try
{
HttpResponseMessage httpResponse = httpClient.PostAsync(uri, httpContent).Result;
//Treatment of the recovered cookies
IEnumerable<Cookie> responseCookies = cookies.GetCookies(uri).Cast<Cookie>();
foreach (Cookie cookie in responseCookies)
{
Debug.WriteLine(cookie.Name + " : " + cookie.Value);
wsCookies.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>(cookie.Name, cookie.Value));
}
if (httpResponse.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var responseText = await httpResponse.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
}
}
=> this method works but I don't get the expected cookies. I send the cookies (names and values) that I've received earlier (SESSIONID=xxx and USERID=xxx), but I don't get a new value for the cookies, whereas I wait USERID=deleted as I can see when I sniff it in Fiddler: I only find the 2 cookies I've sent in "responseCookies"...
=> Do you have an explanation? Is there something that I'm doing wrong? Is there another way to manage webservices and cookies?
