WebBrowser website timeout

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This is for a Desktop C# app in Visual Studio Express 2012.

I am using a webBrowser control to logon to various websites but find some do not respond and timeout.

I suspected it may be the webBrowser control inherently running IE7 but found the websites work fine on an old PC running IE7 as a native browser. Is there something in webBrowser I need to set to allow a website such as the one in the code below to process responses?

The code below navigates to a website I am having trouble with. If you enter any values for Login and Password in a native browser, it immediately responds and throws an error , but in a webBrowser it sits there waiting for a response and eventually times-out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Mick

namespace WindowsFormsApplication11
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
           webBrowser1.Navigate(
               "https://www.my.telstra.com.au/myaccount/home?red=/myaccount/");
        }
    }
}

Michael 1410 · Accepted Answer

Here is the complete working code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using Microsoft.Win32;
using System.Diagnostics;



namespace WindowsFormsApplication11
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            SetBrowserFeatureControl();

            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
           webBrowser1.Navigate("https://www.my.telstra.com.au/myaccount/home?red=/myaccount/");

        }

        private void SetBrowserFeatureControlKey(string feature, string appName, uint value)
        {
            using (var key = Registry.CurrentUser.CreateSubKey(
                String.Concat(@"Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\", feature),
                RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.ReadWriteSubTree))
            {
                key.SetValue(appName, (UInt32)value, RegistryValueKind.DWord);
            }
        }
        private void SetBrowserFeatureControl()
        {
            // http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee330720(v=vs.85).aspx

            // FeatureControl settings are per-process
            var fileName = System.IO.Path.GetFileName(Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainModule.FileName);

            // make the control is not running inside Visual Studio Designer
            if (String.Compare(fileName, "devenv.exe", true) == 0 || String.Compare(fileName, "XDesProc.exe", true) == 0)
                return;

            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION", fileName, GetBrowserEmulationMode()); // Webpages containing standards-based !DOCTYPE directives are displayed in IE10 Standards mode.
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_AJAX_CONNECTIONEVENTS", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_ENABLE_CLIPCHILDREN_OPTIMIZATION", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_MANAGE_SCRIPT_CIRCULAR_REFS", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_DOMSTORAGE ", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_GPU_RENDERING ", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_IVIEWOBJECTDRAW_DMLT9_WITH_GDI  ", fileName, 0);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_NINPUT_LEGACYMODE", fileName, 0);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_DISABLE_LEGACY_COMPRESSION", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_LOCALMACHINE_LOCKDOWN", fileName, 0);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_BLOCK_LMZ_OBJECT", fileName, 0);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_BLOCK_LMZ_SCRIPT", fileName, 0);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_DISABLE_NAVIGATION_SOUNDS", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_SCRIPTURL_MITIGATION", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_SPELLCHECKING", fileName, 0);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_STATUS_BAR_THROTTLING", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_TABBED_BROWSING", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_VALIDATE_NAVIGATE_URL", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_WEBOC_DOCUMENT_ZOOM", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_WEBOC_POPUPMANAGEMENT", fileName, 0);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_WEBOC_MOVESIZECHILD", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_ADDON_MANAGEMENT", fileName, 0);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_WEBSOCKET", fileName, 1);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_WINDOW_RESTRICTIONS ", fileName, 0);
            SetBrowserFeatureControlKey("FEATURE_XMLHTTP", fileName, 1);
        }

        private UInt32 GetBrowserEmulationMode()
        {
            int browserVersion = 7;
            using (var ieKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(@"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer",
                RegistryKeyPermissionCheck.ReadSubTree,
                System.Security.AccessControl.RegistryRights.QueryValues))
            {
                var version = ieKey.GetValue("svcVersion");
                if (null == version)
                {
                    version = ieKey.GetValue("Version");
                    if (null == version)
                        throw new ApplicationException("Microsoft Internet Explorer is required!");
                }
                int.TryParse(version.ToString().Split('.')[0], out browserVersion);
            }

            UInt32 mode = 10000; // Internet Explorer 10. Webpages containing standards-based !DOCTYPE directives are displayed in IE10 Standards mode. Default value for Internet Explorer 10.
            switch (browserVersion)
            {
                case 7:
                    mode = 7000; // Webpages containing standards-based !DOCTYPE directives are displayed in IE7 Standards mode. Default value for applications hosting the WebBrowser Control.
                    break;
                case 8:
                    mode = 8000; // Webpages containing standards-based !DOCTYPE directives are displayed in IE8 mode. Default value for Internet Explorer 8
                    break;
                case 9:
                    mode = 9000; // Internet Explorer 9. Webpages containing standards-based !DOCTYPE directives are displayed in IE9 mode. Default value for Internet Explorer 9.
                    break;
                default:
                    // use IE10 mode by default
                    break;
            }

            return mode;
        }



    }
}

WebBrowser website timeout

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