How to keep alive a WebClient object to avoid session expiration in C#

Question

Could you help me with this question, I have a windows form in VS2019, which I want to get the html generated after send the captcha and other parameter (2 parameters), my windows form contains devexpress controls, a picture edit where I load the captcha, textedit1 where I put the captcha, textedit2 where i put the second parameter (e.g. 06892898), simplebutton1 where I clic to load the captcha to the picture edit, the simplebutton2 to request the website with the 2 parameters, the problem is that when i passed the two parameter in the url, so I got an html with the message "The session has finished", How could I get the session or keep alive the webclient object in C#. Thanks in advance, This is my code:

private WebClient myClient = new WebClient();
public FrmData()
{
    InitializeComponent();
}
private void btnCaptcha_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    myClient.DownloadFile(new Uri("http://ww4.essalud.gob.pe:7777/acredita/captcha.jpg"), @"c:\temp\captcha.jpg");
    pictureCaptcha.Image = Image.FromFile(@"c:\temp\captcha.jpg");
}
private void btnLoad_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string line = string.Empty;
    try
    {
        HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://ww4.essalud.gob.pe:7777/acredita/servlet/Ctrlwacre?captchafield_doc=" + txtedit1.Text + "&td=1&nd=" + txtedit2.Text);
        HttpWebResponse resp = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse();
        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream(), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
        line = sr.ReadToEnd();
        sr.Close();
        resp.Close();
        XtraMessageBox.Show("" + line);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        XtraMessageBox.Show("" + ex.Message);
    }
}

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1789627/how-to-change-the-timeout-on-a-net-webclient-object Look at this. I dont know if you want forever but the session will automatically reset when timeout is complete. — , Aug 21 '20 at 13:54
Thanks, I just keep alive to request the website and get the html. — GSandro_Strongs, Aug 21 '20 at 14:10

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '20 at 18:51

I got the solution using HttpWebRequest, HttpWebResponse, CookieContainer class, I did this code:

private HttpWebRequest request;
private HttpWebResponse response;
private CookieContainer cookies = new CookieContainer();
private void btnCaptcha_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    try
    {
        request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://ww4.essalud.gob.pe:7777/acredita/captcha.jpg");
        request.CookieContainer = cookies;
        request.Timeout = 10000;
        request.ReadWriteTimeout = 10000;
        request.KeepAlive = true;
        response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        pictureCaptcha.Image = Image.FromStream(response.GetResponseStream());
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        XtraMessageBox.Show("" + ex.Message);
    }
}
private void btnLoad_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string line = string.Empty;
    try
    {
        request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://ww4.essalud.gob.pe:7777/acredita/servlet/Ctrlwacre?captchafield_doc=" + txtCaptcha.Text + "&td=1&nd=06915398");
        request.CookieContainer = cookies;
        response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
        line = sr.ReadToEnd();
        sr.Close();
        response.Close();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        XtraMessageBox.Show("" + ex.Message);
    }
    XtraMessageBox.Show("" + line);
}

Thanks for all the comments and the idea to use cookies and keep alive.

How to keep alive a WebClient object to avoid session expiration in C#

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