webrequest POST data help

the & at the beginning was trial and error....i just never removed it from one of the code attempts i tried....


how would i go about "casting" webrequest over to httpwebrequest?

this whole thing was alot easier back on vb6 and winsock lol


could you paste an example of the  cookie container being used with  casting httpwebrequest?....i think the cookies might be the whole problem asfar as the logging in part but im not 100% sure


how would i attach the httpwebrequest cookie container to webrequest?...im not seeing anyway form of container on webrequest :|

Attach a CookieContainer to your request:

        Dim myUrl As String = "http://login.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process"
        Dim request As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(myUrl), HttpWebRequest)
        Dim cc As CookieContainer = New CookieContainer()
        request.CookieContainer = cc

Then just hang on to the container after it is populated and use it for future requests.

does that method work as a post?

ok i see it works as a POST but  im still getting the same results....its not logging in...

would someone mind testing this out please...

Where did you get the form data to post?  I don't have a myspace login, but I submitted a bogus email/password to see what the request looks like and got what you see below.  Is it possible to login with the simplified data you are using?  The post from the page is completely different.

__VIEWSTATE=%2FwEPDwUJNTU4OTgyNDc1ZBgBBR5fX0NvbnRyb2xzUmVxdWlyZVBvc3RCYWNrS2V5X18WAQUnY3RsMDAkY3BNYWluJExvZ2luQm94JFJlbWVtYmVyX0NoZWNrYm94&NextPage=&ctl00%24cpMain%24LoginBox%24Email_Textbox=user@mail.com&ctl00%24cpMain%24LoginBox%24Password_Textbox=password1&dlb=Log+In&ctl00%24cpMain%24LoginBox%24SingleSignOnHash=&ctl00%24cpMain%24LoginBox%24SingleSignOnRequestUri=&ctl00%24cpMain%24LoginBox%24nexturl=&ctl00%24cpMain%24LoginBox%24apikey=&ctl00%24cpMain%24LoginBox%24ContainerPage

i used a post program that wasnt designed for this purpose and the end result was the  sniffer showed i logged in and the only 2 parameters i had it enter in was email and password


when checking the sniffer that was all that got sent in the post if i recall

however i did notice when logging in with  the poster and trying to login using webrequest....

the poster  has 2 out going packets then a bunch coming in....and using webrequest the  packets
sent are 1 out....1 in...1 out....then a bunch coming in

As I said, I don't have a myspace account to actually log in to, so you'll need to get someone with an account to get you farther than this.

Do you at least see the CookieContainer get populated with cookies?  I do get a set of Cookies when I try to log in with the bogus credentials when I use your code and parameters.

this is going to cause to to pull all my hair out lmao

using cc.count i got 3 cookies i think....but how to use them i have no idea and also
i dont know what the correct login format is for myspace... iv been googleing this for
the majority of the last 2 weeks trying to figure out the correct format needed and
also a good replacement for the vb6 winsock i left by switching to vb2005 lol


normally when i need help i just google it and i either find the answer or i am inspired
to either try something  and it works or i end up finding another way to get the end result
but no one that knows how to login to myspace is talkin about it lol


this is what i have codewise and its not getting me anywhere at the moment

 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        ' Create a request using a URL that can receive a post. 
        Dim myUrl As String = "http://login.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process"
        Dim request As HttpWebRequest = CType(WebRequest.Create(myUrl), HttpWebRequest)
        Dim cc As CookieContainer = New CookieContainer()
        request.CookieContainer = cc
        ' Set the Method property of the request to POST.
        request.Method = "POST"
        ' Create POST data and convert it to a byte array.
        Dim postData As String = "email=m8ter69%40hotmail.com&password=catscats"
        Dim byteArray As Byte() = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData)
        ' Set the ContentType property of the WebRequest.
        request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        ' Set the ContentLength property of the WebRequest.
        request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length
 
 
        ' Get the request stream.
        Dim dataStream As Stream = request.GetRequestStream()
        ' Write the data to the request stream.
        dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length)
        ' Close the Stream object.
        dataStream.Close()
        ' Get the response.
        Dim response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse()
        ' Display the status.
        Console.WriteLine(CType(response, HttpWebResponse).StatusDescription)
        ' Get the stream containing content returned by the server.
        dataStream = response.GetResponseStream()
        ' Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.
        Dim reader As New StreamReader(dataStream)
        ' Read the content.
        Dim responseFromServer As String = reader.ReadToEnd()
        ' Display the content.
        'Console.WriteLine(responseFromServer)
        Grabber.Text = Grabber.Text & vbCrLf & responseFromServer
        ' Clean up the streams.
        reader.Close()
        dataStream.Close()
        response.Close()
        Cookiez.Text = Cookiez.Text & vbCrLf & cc.Count
    End Sub

                                              

1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8:
9:
10:
11:
12:
13:
14:
15:
16:
17:
18:
19:
20:
21:
22:
23:
24:
25:
26:
27:
28:
29:
30:
31:
32:
33:
34:
35:
36:
37:
38:
39:
40:
41:
42:

it works fine using this post program that wasnt designed for this purpose so i dunno



POST /index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Host: login.myspace.com
Content-Length: 47
Connection: Keep-Alive

email=<myemail>&password=<mypassword>



then in return from sending them that i get this back

HTTP/1.1 302 Object Moved


but then 2 more /GET's come back and the final result after sifting through the packet sniffer is that im logged in

Interesting that they have an alternative login scheme to the login page.  Makes you wonder if it's documented somewhere...

its semi entertaining actually....iv checked everywhere for someone else that wanted to do this same thing yet there isn't any answers anywhere lmao....its like the internet is oblivious on how to execute this task O_o...

maybe some master coder will pop out of the wood works with mystical knowledge everyone's hiding lmao