How do I get ALL cookies from a website instead of only a few.

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I made a application for getting all cookies on a website but I noticed the app only outputs a few. Why is this happening and is this fixable?

What I have tried:

C#

try
{

string url = textBox1.Text;
               
HttpWebRequest myCall = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); 

myCall.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer();

response = (HttpWebResponse)myCall.GetResponse();

myCall.AllowAutoRedirect = true;

foreach (Cookie cookie in response.Cookies)
{                   
    listBox1.Items.Add(cookie.Name);
     listBox1.Items.Add(cookie.Value);
}

myCall.Abort();

}
catch(Exception ex)
{
 MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}

Posted 17-Oct-17 6:13am

Member 13470456

Updated 18-Oct-17 0:11am

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ZurdoDev 17-Oct-17 14:29pm

That looks right. Which ones are missing?

Steve44 17-Oct-17 15:51pm

Can you please describe with what you are comparing the list of cookies you get in your program above? Are you comparing with the cookies a browser might receive from the same website? Or do you know, which cookies the website is supposed to send?
Without this information it is difficult to identify any reason for the missing cookies.

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2017-10-17T23:43:00

Solution 1

You can't.
For security reasons you can not get all cookies only those related to your session/domain...

Posted 17-Oct-17 23:43pm

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

F-ES Sitecore · Answer 2 · 2017-10-18T00:11:00

Cookies are stored on the client, not the server so you can't get all cookies from a request to the web server. Your code is examining the response so you'll only see the cookies that are being *set* on that response, and a web site doesn't set all cookies every time. For example when you add to basket if you have no basket id in your cookie the site will add a basket id cookie and you'll see that cookie in the result of the add to basket page. However from then on you won't see that cookie being set as it is only set when the basket is created. From then on it is the client who has to manage that cookie.