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user3802347
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Reputation: 108

Extracting Username and Password from raw URL

I have a webservice that is accepting a string parameter. the parameter will always be a raw url. The user send me a raw url with the username, requestid, the option yes or no. For example:

http://bookReport/request.aspx?user=abc&password=password&request=1&option=yes

I am creating a web request and passing the url as shown below. 

var request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
var user = request.RequestUri.Query.ToString();
string[] p = Regex.Split(user, "password=");
string[] password = Regex.Split(p[1], "&request=");

How do I get the username, password, request, and option without having use the Regex.Split method?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 469

Answers (3)

Rick Liddle
Rick Liddle

Reputation: 2714

Several people have suggested you can access the querystring via the Request object's QueryString indexer. That indexer appears in System.Web.HttpRequest, and the object in question is System.Net.HttpWebRequest. They are very different things. The HttpUtility class will parse the parameters out of the querystring for you:

    Uri uri = new Uri("http://bookReport/request.aspx?user=abc&password=password&request=1&option=yes");        
    var qs = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(uri.Query);

.Net Fiddle here

Upvotes: 1

Kiran Hegde
Kiran Hegde

Reputation: 3681

You can access the query string variables using Request.QueryString function as below

    string userName = Request.QueryString["user"];
    string password = Request.QueryString["password"];
    string request = Request.QueryString["request"];
    string option = Request.QueryString["option"];

By looking at your code, just got another approach for retrieving the query string values from a string. You can use the following code

            Uri uri = new Uri(url);
            var values= HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(uri.Query);
            string userName = values["user"];
            string password = values["password"];
            string request = values["request"];
            string option = values["option"];

Upvotes: 1

Ondipuli
Ondipuli

Reputation: 468

string userName = request.QueryString["user"];
string password = request.QueryString["password"];

Upvotes: 1

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