This helped me to call API that was using cookie authentication. I have passed authorization in header like this:
request.Headers.Set("Authorization", Utility.Helper.ReadCookie("AuthCookie"));
complete code:
// utility method to read the cookie value:
public static string ReadCookie(string cookieName)
{
var cookies = HttpContext.Current.Request.Cookies;
var cookie = cookies.Get(cookieName);
if (cookie != null)
return cookie.Value;
return null;
}
// using statements where you are creating your webclient
using System.Web.Script.Serialization;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
// WebClient:
var requestUrl = "<API_url>";
var postRequest = new ClassRoom { name = "kushal seth" };
using (var webClient = new WebClient()) {
JavaScriptSerializer serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
byte[] requestData = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(serializer.Serialize(postRequest));
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(requestUrl) as HttpWebRequest;
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.ContentLength = requestData.Length;
request.ContentType = "application/json";
request.Expect = "application/json";
request.Headers.Set("Authorization", Utility.Helper.ReadCookie("AuthCookie"));
request.GetRequestStream().Write(requestData, 0, requestData.Length);
using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) {
var reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
var objText = reader.ReadToEnd(); // objText will have the value
}
}