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Casper Gauss
Casper Gauss

Reputation: 45

C# unable to assign cookiecontainer to asmx web service client

I'm attempting to connect to a asmx web service in C# using visual studio 2012 express.

The documentation says to assign a cookiecontainer to the web service like follows:

using System.Web.Services.Protocols;    /// using appropriate references
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;

//   Create an instance of the Web Service and assign in
//   a cookiecontainer to preserve the validated session

ServiceRef.WSClient wsClient = new ServiceRef.WSClient();

CookieContainer cookieJar = new CookieContainer();
wsClient.CookieContainer = cookieJar;

But, that results in error:

'WebServiceTest.ServiceRef.WSClient' does not contain a definition 
for 'CookieContainer' and no extension method 'CookieContainer' 
accepting a first argument of type 'WebServiceTest.ServiceRef.WSClient' 
could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly 
reference?)

I've tried adding "allowCookies" to app.config. That doesn't seem to work; calling ws methods that require being logged in (having a cookie set) fail. Fail means I get a message about a problem with the xml they return (they're returning some non-xml error presumably).

I'm totally new to C#, SOAP based web services, and visual studio, but I've seen numerous code examples that use code exactly like mine. For example:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.services.protocols.httpwebclientprotocol.cookiecontainer.aspx

http://megakemp.com/2009/02/06/managing-shared-cookies-in-wcf/

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4544

Answers (1)

argaz
argaz

Reputation: 1488

It seems that you are using a WCF service reference client that doesn't contain a CookieContainer property.

The post that you referenced actually contains methods for dealing with cookies on WCF service reference clients, The simplest being the allowCookies config property, which would automatically pass cookies that were received in previous responses.

If you would like to use the older types of clients (Web Reference, which have the CookieContainer property) you can follow this article.

Upvotes: 2

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