HttpWebRequest with session cookies

[Guest]

I'm trying to programatically mine newsgroups like yahoo (among others), but
need to be able to sign into the site first. my assumption is that when i
sign in, a session cookie is created and is used to verify my identity for
each http request after that.

Does anyone have an example of using the HttpWebRequest with a URL that
requires a logon web page first, before accessing the content pages?

Thanks

 

[Scott Allen]

Does anyone have an example of using the HttpWebRequest with a URL that
requires a logon web page first, before accessing the content pages?

You'll need a CookieContainer object around, and attach the
CookieContainer object to your HttpWebRequest objects to send and save
cookies.

This might help, too:
http://odetocode.com/Articles/162.aspx