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Hi, i want to make a very basic login to get my messages from a forum i use, i got the OK from the forum Administrator to use automatic software to login to my account and i'm trying to do this:
Chilkat.Http http = new Chilkat.Http();
http.UnlockComponent("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx");
http.SessionLogFilename = "c:/temp/httpSessionLog.txt";
http.CookieDir = "memory";
http.SaveCookies = true;
http.MimicFireFox = true;
http.FollowRedirects = true;
http.SetRequestHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate");
http.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
http.SetRequestHeader("Accept-Language", "en-us");
http.SetRequestHeader("Referer", "http://forums.vwvortex.com/forum.php");
http.SetRequestHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)");
http.SetRequestHeader("Accept", "application/x-shockwave-flash, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-application, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml, /");
Chilkat.HttpRequest post = new Chilkat.HttpRequest();
post.AddParam("s", "");
post.AddParam("securitytoken", "guest");
post.AddParam("vb_login_md5password", "");
post.AddParam("vb_login_md5password_utf", "");
post.AddParam("vb_login_password", "yyyyyyy"); //my password
post.AddParam("vb_login_password_hint", "Password");
post.AddParam("vb_login_username", "xxxxxxxx"); //my username
post.HttpVerb = "POST";
post.UsePost();
post.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
Chilkat.HttpResponse html = http.PostUrlEncoded("http://forums.vwvortex.com/login.php?do=login", post);
string htmlretur = html.BodyStr;
var a = http.LastErrorText;
var b = http.LastHeader;
http.SendCookies = true;
// everything seems to be OK until here, i get the welcome message and everyting, but when i try to mavigate to another page i am not logged in... I think it's some cookie problem..
ret = http.QuickGetStr("http://forums.vwvortex.com/");
a = http.LastErrorText;
b = http.LastHeader;
here is the httpsessionlog
http://pastebin.com/kp7pf8Kn
here is the LastErrorText for the post
ChilkatLog:
PostUrlEncoded:
DllDate: Dec 12 2012
UnlockPrefix: DAVIDHHttp
Username: EVENTS:Administrator
Architecture: Little Endian; 32-bit
Language: .NET 4.0
VerboseLogging: 0
url: http://forums.vwvortex.com/login.php?do=login
sessionLogFilename: c:/temp/httpSessionLog.txt
RequestData:
HttpVersion: 1.1
Verb: POST
Path: /
Charset: windows-1252
SendCharset: 0
MimeHeader: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
RequestParams:
RequestItem:
name: s
value:
--RequestItem
RequestItem:
name: securitytoken
value: guest
--RequestItem
RequestItem:
name: vb_login_md5password
value:
--RequestItem
RequestItem:
name: vb_login_md5password_utf
value:
--RequestItem
RequestItem:
name: vb_login_password
value: yyyyyyyyy
--RequestItem
RequestItem:
name: vb_login_password_hint
value: Password
--RequestItem
RequestItem:
name: vb_login_username
value: xxxxxxxx
--RequestItem
--RequestParams
--RequestData
httpConnect:
hostname: forums.vwvortex.com
port: 80
ssl: 0
Need to establish connection to the HTTP server...
ConnectTimeoutMs_1: 120000
calling ConnectSocket2
IPV6 enabled connect with NO heartbeat.
connectingTo: forums.vwvortex.com
resolveHostname1:
dnsCacheLookup: forums.vwvortex.com
Resolving domain name (IPV4)
--resolveHostname1
GetHostByNameHB_ipv4: Elapsed time: 171 millisec
myIP_1: 172.158.18.252
myPort_1: 1500
connect successful (1)
Turning on TCP_NODELAY.
socketOptions:
SO_SNDBUF: 8192
SO_RCVBUF: 8192
TCP_NODELAY: 1
--socketOptions
Connected
--httpConnect
connectTime1: Elapsed time: 500 millisec
sendRequestGetResponse_1:
sendRequest:
Adding Host header...
host: forums.vwvortex.com
port: 80
Auto-adding any accumulated cookies.
CookieDir: memory
CookieDomain: forums.vwvortex.com
CookiePath: /login.php
LoadCookieJar:
Path: /login.php
GetDomainCookiesXml:
CookieDir: memory
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
HashKey: vwvortex_com.xml
No cookies exist yet.
--GetDomainCookiesXml
--LoadCookieJar
No cookie jar found.
--sendRequest
sendRequestTime: Elapsed time: 0 millisec
---- Reading HTTP Response ----
readResponse2_4:
ConnectionRespHdr: close
fetchNonSslResponseData2_4:
Reading chunked response
--fetchNonSslResponseData2_4
Closing HTTP connection because of Connection:close header. (or proxy-connection:close header)
Saving cookies...
defaultCookieDomain: forums.vwvortex.com
Cookie:
Name: bb_sessionhash
Value: e972b78dd358b4a5da6814c558be054f
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
Path: /
Expire:
--Cookie
SaveCookie:
CookieDir: memory
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
HashKey: vwvortex_com.xml
--SaveCookie
Cookie:
Name: bb_lastvisit
Value: 1368033680
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
Path: /
Expire: Thu, 08-May-2014 17:21:20 GMT
--Cookie
SaveCookie:
CookieDir: memory
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
HashKey: vwvortex_com.xml
--SaveCookie
Cookie:
Name: bb_lastactivity
Value: 0
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
Path: /
Expire: Thu, 08-May-2014 17:21:20 GMT
--Cookie
SaveCookie:
CookieDir: memory
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
HashKey: vwvortex_com.xml
--SaveCookie
Cookie:
Name: SERVERID
Value:
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
Path: /
Expire: Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT
--Cookie
SaveCookie:
CookieDir: memory
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
Cookie is expired. Not saving...
expiration: Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT
bDateParsed: 1
parsedExpDateTime: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT
--SaveCookie
readResponseTime: Elapsed time: 421 millisec
--readResponse2_4
processResponse_3:
responseStatus: 200
--processResponse_3
--sendRequestGetResponse_1
Success.
--PostUrlEncoded
--ChilkatLog
and this is the LastErrorText for the next GET, the result html is OK but i am not logged in...
ChilkatLog:
QuickGetStr:
DllDate: Dec 12 2012
UnlockPrefix: DAVIDHHttp
Username: EVENTS:Administrator
Architecture: Little Endian; 32-bit
Language: .NET 4.0
VerboseLogging: 0
QuickReq:
url: http://forums.vwvortex.com/
QuickGetToOutput_OnExisting:
qGet_1:
simpleHttpRequest_3:
httpMethod: GET
requestUrl: http://forums.vwvortex.com/
Connecting to web server...
httpServer: forums.vwvortex.com
port: 80
ConnectTimeoutMs_1: 120000
calling ConnectSocket2
IPV6 enabled connect with NO heartbeat.
connectingTo: forums.vwvortex.com
resolveHostname1:
dnsCacheLookup: forums.vwvortex.com
dnsCacheHit: 199.193.245.42
--resolveHostname1
GetHostByNameHB_ipv4: Elapsed time: 0 millisec
myIP_1: 172.158.18.252
myPort_1: 1503
connect successful (1)
Turning on TCP_NODELAY.
socketOptions:
SO_SNDBUF: 8192
SO_RCVBUF: 8192
TCP_NODELAY: 1
--socketOptions
connectElapsedMs: 172
-- BuildFireFoxGetRequest --
Auto-adding any accumulated cookies.
CookieDir: memory
CookieDomain: forums.vwvortex.com
CookiePath: /
LoadCookieJar:
Path: /
GetDomainCookiesXml:
CookieDir: memory
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
HashKey: vwvortex_com.xml
--GetDomainCookiesXml
--LoadCookieJar
AddingCookie: bb_sessionhash=e972b78dd358b4a5da6814c558be054f; bb_lastvisit=1368033680; bb_lastactivity=0
sendElapsedMs: 0
Saving cookies...
defaultCookieDomain: forums.vwvortex.com
Cookie:
Name: bb_sessionhash
Value: ab2c97b9bfadc43b0280ba27584afab9
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
Path: /
Expire:
--Cookie
SaveCookie:
CookieDir: memory
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
HashKey: vwvortex_com.xml
--SaveCookie
Cookie:
Name: bb_lastactivity
Value: 0
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
Path: /
Expire: Thu, 08-May-2014 17:22:43 GMT
--Cookie
SaveCookie:
CookieDir: memory
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
HashKey: vwvortex_com.xml
--SaveCookie
Cookie:
Name: SERVERID
Value:
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
Path: /
Expire: Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT
--Cookie
SaveCookie:
CookieDir: memory
Domain: forums.vwvortex.com
Cookie is expired. Not saving...
expiration: Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT
bDateParsed: 1
parsedExpDateTime: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT
--SaveCookie
StatusCode: 200
StatusText: OK
Reading response body...
fetchNonSslResponseData2_2:
Reading chunked response
--fetchNonSslResponseData2_2
readResponseElapsedMs: 922
CompressedSize: 8544
Got connection:close header
--simpleHttpRequest_3
--qGet_1
--QuickGetToOutput_OnExisting
--QuickReq
responseSize: 32457
responseContentType: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
This is a text response...
ResponseHdrCharset: ISO-8859-1
Converting to utf-8 charset.
ConvertFromCodePage: 28591
NumUtf8Bytes: 32461
Success.
--QuickGetStr
--ChilkatLog
Any idea why ? Or what am i doing wrong? i tested with my browser, Active Scripting Disabled with both Firefox and IE 8 and it works.
I recorded my actions and i get this, Recorded with IE 8:
POST /login.php?do=login HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/x-shockwave-flash, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-application, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml, /
Referer: http://forums.vwvortex.com/forum.php
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: forums.vwvortex.com
Content-Length: 168
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
Cookie: bb_lastvisit=1368022979; bb_lastactivity=0
vb_login_username=xxxxxxxxxxxx&vb_login_password_hint=Password&vb_login_password=yyyyyyyyyy&s=&securitytoken=guest&do=login&vb_login_md5password=&vb_login_md5password_utf=
received:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 14:23:27 GMT
Server: LiteSpeed
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.2
Set-Cookie: bb_lastactivity=0; expires=Thu, 08-May-2014 14:23:27 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: bb_sessionhash=09a44477f40262cab54b2cfa7f3cb07f; path=/; HttpOnly
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Set-Cookie: SERVERID=; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT; path=/
683
gziped html here ...
redirect to : http://forums.vwvortex.com/forum.php My browser sends :
GET /forum.php HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/x-shockwave-flash, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-application, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml, /
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: forums.vwvortex.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: bb_lastvisit=1368022979; bb_lastactivity=0; bb_sessionhash=09a44477f40262cab54b2cfa7f3cb07f
Receive :
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 14:23:30 GMT
Server: LiteSpeed
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.2
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Set-Cookie: SERVERID=; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT; path=/
1000 Gzip content here ....
and i remain logged in for example if i go to:
GET /forumdisplay.php?5080-The-Car-Lounge HTTP/1.1
Accept: application/x-shockwave-flash, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-application, application/x-ms-xbap, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml, /
Referer: http://forums.vwvortex.com/forum.php
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: forums.vwvortex.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: bb_lastvisit=1368022979; bb_lastactivity=0; bb_sessionhash=09a44477f40262cab54b2cfa7f3cb07f
and the response :
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 15:06:42 GMT
Server: LiteSpeed
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.2
Set-Cookie: bb_sessionhash=192be09d402793184ef59a400efd05bf; path=/; HttpOnly
Set-Cookie: bb_lastvisit=1368022979; expires=Thu, 08-May-2014 15:06:42 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: bb_lastactivity=0; expires=Thu, 08-May-2014 15:06:42 GMT; path=/
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Set-Cookie: SERVERID=; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:01 GMT; path=/
html here and i am logged in...
here is the pastebin version of this question because is hard to follow ...
Never mind, it works now, after sniffing all traffic with WireShark i found the missing link :) So you can delete this question. Thanks