How to enter vbulletin forum with C #?

Question

I am trying to enter the vbulletin forum. I got to this:

private string login(string url, string username, string password) { string values = "vb_login_username={0}&vb_login_password={1}" values += "&securitytoken=guest&cookieuser=checked&do=login"; values = string.Format(values, username, password); HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); CookieContainer a = new CookieContainer(); req.CookieContainer = a; System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false; // prevents 417 error using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(req.GetRequestStream(), System.Text.Encoding.ASCII)) { writer.Write(values); } this.response = (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse(); StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder(); foreach (var cookie in response.Cookies) { output.Append(cookie.ToString()); output.Append(";"); } return output.ToString(); } 

I seem to be logged in, but when I load the page, I cannot find my name in it.

Do you guys see anything that I can do wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You can do this with an HTTP request

Use this method

 public string Login(Uri ActionUrl, string postData) { gRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(formActionUrl); gRequest.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100202 Firefox/3.5.8 GTBDFff GTB7.0"; gRequest.CookieContainer = new CookieContainer(); gRequest.Method = "POST"; gRequest.Accept = " text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8, */*"; gRequest.KeepAlive = true; gRequest.ContentType = @"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"; #region CookieManagement if (this.gCookies != null && this.gCookies.Count > 0) { gRequest.CookieContainer.Add(gCookies); } try { string postdata = string.Format(postData); byte[] postBuffer = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding(1252).GetBytes(postData); gRequest.ContentLength = postBuffer.Length; Stream postDataStream = gRequest.GetRequestStream(); postDataStream.Write(postBuffer, 0, postBuffer.Length); postDataStream.Close(); } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } try { gResponse = (HttpWebResponse)gRequest.GetResponse(); } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex); } //check if the status code is http 200 or http ok if (gResponse.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK) { //get all the cookies from the current request and add them to the response object cookies gResponse.Cookies = gRequest.CookieContainer.GetCookies(gRequest.RequestUri); //check if response object has any cookies or not if (gResponse.Cookies.Count > 0) { //check if this is the first request/response, if this is the response of first request gCookies //will be null if (this.gCookies == null) { gCookies = gResponse.Cookies; } else { foreach (Cookie oRespCookie in gResponse.Cookies) { bool bMatch = false; foreach (Cookie oReqCookie in this.gCookies) { if (oReqCookie.Name == oRespCookie.Name) { oReqCookie.Value = oRespCookie.Name; bMatch = true; break; // } } if (!bMatch) this.gCookies.Add(oRespCookie); } } } #endregion StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(gResponse.GetResponseStream()); string responseString = reader.ReadToEnd(); reader.Close(); //Console.Write("Response String:" + responseString); return responseString; } else { return "Error in posting data"; } } 

Answer 2

I'm not sure if I will follow you. What exactly do you mean with VBB?

If you mean posting a topic to vb.com, I can tell you that there is a thread in vb.org that is open in the "vb3 programming discussion" forum (not published by me). It should be on the third page, starting with "C #".

If you mean something else with your message, can you clarify it a bit?