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wininet session

I am trying to log into webmin using wininet. I use the following functions:

InternetOpen();
InternetConnect();
HttpOpenRequest();
HttpSendRequest();
InternetReadFile();

The problem is what I read back is:
<h1>Error - No cookies</h1>
<pre>Your browser does not support cookies, which are required for this web serv
er to work in session authentication mode</pre>

How do I make my wininet application support cookies?

jkr

Check your IE settings, if they are set to not allow cookies, that will affect Wininet, too.

lwinkenb

ASKER

I can log in just fine with IE. My guess is that I either have to do one of the following:

- Pass an option to one of the functions I listed above that tells the session I am accepting cookies
- Pass an additional HTTP header which tells the server I accept cookies
- Write the cookie manually somehow

I've been reading the wininet documentation, but I haven't come across anything substantial yet.

jkr

>>I've been reading the wininet documentation, but I haven't come across anything substantial yet.

As long aas you do *not* pass INTERNET_FLAG_NO_COOKIES to 'HttpOpenRequest()', it should work.

lwinkenb

ASKER

I'm not passing INTERNET_FLAG_NO_COOKIES, but it still isn't working.

lwinkenb

ASKER

Here is what my HttpOpenRequest looks like:

hRequest = HttpOpenRequest(hSession,NULL,"/session_login.cgi?user=root&pass=mypassword","HTTP/1.1",NULL,(const char**)mediaTypes,
            INTERNET_FLAG_SECURE | INTERNET_FLAG_IGNORE_CERT_CN_INVALID |
            INTERNET_FLAG_IGNORE_CERT_DATE_INVALID | INTERNET_FLAG_KEEP_CONNECTION |
            INTERNET_FLAG_NO_CACHE_WRITE | INTERNET_FLAG_NO_UI |
            INTERNET_FLAG_PRAGMA_NOCACHE | INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD,0);

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