Set cookie in webservice request

Question

Hi,
Is there a way to set a cookie in a webservice request or include the HttpCookie in the service call ? Basically I am using Axis on client side to call a .NET webservice on a remote server and need to pass user data to the service in a cookie.
Thanks
NK

Answer 1

Hi Santhiyaraman,
Webview control is in windows phone 8.1 runtime app, in windows phone 8 is webbrowser control.
Webbrowser control does not provide some properties or methods to add custom cookie, but we can do this using the javascript. Code snippet looks like the following.
private void setCookie(string name, string value, string path = "", string domain = "", bool isSecure=false, string expires = "")
var sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendFormat("document.cookie = '{0}=\" + escape(\"{1}\")", name, value);
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(expires))
sb.AppendFormat(";expires=\"{0}\"", expires); // should be a GMTString
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(path))
sb.AppendFormat(";path=\"{0}\"", path);
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(domain))
sb.AppendFormat(";domain=\"{0}\"", domain);
if (isSecure)
sb.Append(";secure'");
var cookieJs = sb.ToString();
Debug.WriteLine(cookieJs);
webBrowser.InvokeScript(cookieJs);
You can find more information about it from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13287409/windows-phone-webbrowser-set-cookies.
Please try and let me know the result.
Regards,
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