Making posts to an ASP.NET webform.

[Bernard]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> At Monday 2/10/2006 13:05, Bernard wrote:
>
> > > > Has anyone tried what I'm doing? and if you tried how have you
> > > > succeeded getting the data back after the post action?
>
> Use a packet sniffer or something to look at an actual POST that
> works, this way you could see what's missing in your code.
>
>
> Gabriel Genellina
> Softlab SRL

Thanks for that suggestion Gabriel. It's really a great idea to see
what's going on behind the scene but it still doesn't work even though
the post made by my function has the same data as a real browser post.

here's the HTTP Header from my sniffer:
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http://www.newportrealty.com/Search/Default.aspx?Area=WC

POST /Search/Default.aspx?Area=WC HTTP/1.1
Host: www.newportrealty.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6)
Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6
Accept:
text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.newportrealty.com/Search/Default.aspx?Area=WC
Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQQBTTDAT=JMBNNNNBNNJELLBBNCCDMNCK;
ASP.NET_SessionId=hzdjizvca2zid3f205s5kd45
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 4649
__EVENTTARGET=dg_Result%3A_ctl1%3A_ctl1&__EVENTARGUMENT=&__VIEWSTATE=dDw0MD(...)
HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Length: 37519
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:15:37 GMT
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and here's the output of the encoded data as well as the cookies in my
function:

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cookies:
<Cookie ASP.NET_SessionId=lddb3iruopvpnjiar0dlytvi for
www.newportrealty.com/>
<Cookie ASPSESSIONIDQQBTTDAT=OMBNNNNBMLDDAIHNDHJGLFKP for
www.newportrealty.com/>

encoded post data:
__EVENTTARGET=dg_Result%3A_ctl14%3A_ctl2&__EVENTARGUMENT=&__VIEWSTATE=dDw0MDAyOTcw(...)
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My function has already worked on other asp.net websites and I'm pretty
sure this would work out just fine. is there something I'm missing here?