Is it possible to have an ASP.NET web proxy accept a GET request from the client, perform a POST to an external website, and then send the external POST response back to the original client in the form of a redirect (URL change in address bar)?
The client calls my proxy like this: internalWebsite.com?userId=1234.
Server-side, I then create an HttpWebRequest (POST) pointed to the external URL, take that userId query string to build a token and place it in the HttpWebRequest Authorization header, which the external site requires for authentication.
When this response comes back, I return the external HTML response string to the original client. The problem is that the HTML page has relative links to images, css, pages that do not work since the browser still thinks it is on my internal website.
I have seen many examples of doing external GET, and even external POST as long as I don't need the authorization header, but I cannot get this to work. See code below...
string url = "externalWebSite.com/login";
StringBuilder postData = new StringBuilder();
postData.Append("post data goes here");
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
WebHeaderCollection myWebHeaderCollection = request.Headers;
myWebHeaderCollection.Add("Authorization", "Bearer" + " " + token);
request.Headers = myWebHeaderCollection;
request.AllowAutoRedirect = true; //new
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.ContentLength = postData.ToString().Length;
//request.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
request.UserAgent = ".NET Web Proxy";
request.Referer = url;
StreamWriter writer = null;
try
{
writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream());
writer.Write(postData.ToString());
writer.Flush();
HttpWebResponse WebResp = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
//Now, we read the response (the string), and output it.
Stream Answer = WebResp.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader _Answer = new StreamReader(Answer);
_context.Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
_context.Response.ContentType = WebResp.ContentType;
_context.Response.Write(_Answer.ReadToEnd());
}
finally
{
if (writer != null)
writer.Close();
}
Thanks in advance for your help!
After you recieve content, try to insert html-tag "base" just after "head" section begins:
<html>
<head>
<base href="http://externalWebSite.com">
... <!-- content from externalWebSite.com -->
Also, if you want to display all content that you recieved, it is better override Render method on your page:
protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
{
string result = GetContentFromTherOtherSite();
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter htw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
base.Render(htw);
writer.Write(result);
}
In this case, on your page there will be only content from the other site, without your tags.
Related
I am trying to extract the html of my current page. To do it is pretty simple
private string GetHtml()
{
WebClient myClient = new WebClient();
string myPageHTML = null;
byte[] requestHTML;
// Gets the url of the page
string currentPageUrl = Request.Url.ToString();
UTF8Encoding utf8 = new UTF8Encoding();
requestHTML = myClient.DownloadData(currentPageUrl);
myPageHTML = utf8.GetString(requestHTML);
Response.Write(myPageHTML);
return myPageHTML;
}
But my problem I am having is, if this page is behind a secure section, the WebClient is effectively unauthenticated, so the server will just return the "Login screen" instead.
Can I pass my cookie or my session to this WebClient?
I want to log in to a website setting.fun-freak.com just for learning purpose by using a windows desktop application. I used webrequest and tried as
string formUrl = "http://setting.fun-freak.com/Account/Login.aspx";
string formParams = string.Format("ctl00$MainContent$txtUserName=loginId&ctl00$MainContent$txtPassword=password");
string cookieHeader;
WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(formUrl);
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
req.Method = "POST";
byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(formParams);
req.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
using (Stream os = req.GetRequestStream())
{
os.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
}
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(req.GetResponse()))
{
pageSource = sr.ReadToEnd();
}
I assume that this pageSource object will have html of next page after login page (if login succesfully), but it contains the same login page in return.
How can I successfully log in to this website and get home page in response?
Moreover, this (setting.fun-freak.com) my own site, built in asp.net webforms. Here is button click event code (May be it help to dig out the problem)
UserContainer User = new UserProcessing().Authenticate(txtUserName.Text, txtPassword.Text);
if (User != null)
{
Session["User"] = User;
FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(txtUserName.Text, RememberMe.Checked);
}
else
{
lblMessage.Text = "Invalid credentials. Please try again";
}
Any help will be appreciated.
I added this piece of code as it is, but it still not working .
it is taken from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/debx8sh9.aspx
// Create a request using a URL that can receive a post.
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("http://setting.fun-freak.com/Account/Login.aspx");
// Set the Method property of the request to POST.
request.Method = "POST";
// Create POST data and convert it to a byte array.
string postData = "ctl00$MainContent$txtUserName=UserName&ctl00$MainContent$txtPassword=Password";
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
// Set the ContentType property of the WebRequest.
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
// Set the ContentLength property of the WebRequest.
request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
// Get the request stream.
Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream();
// Write the data to the request stream.
dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
// Close the Stream object.
dataStream.Close();
// Get the response.
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
// Display the status.
Console.WriteLine(((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription);
// Get the stream containing content returned by the server.
dataStream = response.GetResponseStream();
// Open the stream using a StreamReader for easy access.
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(dataStream);
// Read the content.
string responseFromServer = reader.ReadToEnd();
// Display the content.
Console.WriteLine(responseFromServer);
// Clean up the streams.
reader.Close();
dataStream.Close();
response.Close();
The problem is that the object responseFromServer do not show then content of next to the login page. Its shows only login page contents.
I have a webapp that accepts a messageid and status as a QueryString from an external server. I am migrating the webapp to a new server, but I need the new server to forward the QueryString to the old server in case the old server is still waiting for updates, and until I can get my clients migrated over.
The External website calls my webapp with ?MSGID=12345678&RESPONSE=0
eg:
http://dlrnotify.newserver.com/GetResponse.aspx?MSGID=12345678&RESPONSE=0
I need my code behind GetResponse.aspx to process the message locally, and then forward the request to the old server. eg, calling:
http://dlrnotify.oldserver.com/GetResponse.aspx?MSGID=12345678&RESPONSE=0
I don't really want to redirect the user to the old web server, just to pass the querystring on from my app.
I can get the QueryString by calling Response.QueryString.ToString() I just need to know how to post that to the old server without upsetting anything.
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I don't work with web apps very often and am obviously using the wrong search terms.
You can use HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse for this. Below is an example to use thses
Uri uri = new Uri("http://www.microsoft.com/default.aspx");
if(uri.Scheme = Uri.UriSchemeHttp)
{
HttpWebRequest request = HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Get;
HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
string tmp = reader.ReadToEnd();
response.Close();
Response.Write(tmp);
}
Sample Code on how to Post Data to remote Web Page using HttpWebRequest
Uri uri = new Uri("http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/102-5194535-6807312");
string data = "field-keywords=ASP.NET 2.0";
if (uri.Scheme == Uri.UriSchemeHttp)
{
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Http.Post;
request.ContentLength = data.Length;
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream());
writer.Write(data);
writer.Close();
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());
string tmp = reader.ReadToEnd();
response.Close();
Response.Write(tmp);
}
After executing your code (process message) on the new server, manually generate a HttpWebRequest which should be to your old server with the same querystring as you already figured out to form.
I have a task which is same as your post. But there is a little more in that.
As we have two web applications, one in asp.net and other in PHP. In both we create user profiles. Now the task is to Create users in Asp.NET application and we need to save the same information in PHP application from Asp.Net app.
I am using the below code for that but it is not wroking, Can you please look at it and let me know what I am missing.
CookieContainer cookies = new CookieContainer();
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(#"http://localhost/admin/config/popup_user_info_brand.php");
request.PreAuthenticate = true;
request.AllowWriteStreamBuffering = true;
request.CookieContainer = cookies; // note this
request.Method = "POST";
string boundary = System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
string Username = "admin";
string Password = "admin";
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(Username) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(Password))
{
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(Username, Password);
request.ContentType = string.Format("multipart/form-data; boundary={0}", boundary);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.AppendLine("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"name\"");
sb.AppendLine("Singh");
sb.AppendLine("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"username\"");
sb.AppendLine("Singh123");
sb.AppendLine("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"email\"");
sb.AppendLine("a#b.com");
sb.AppendLine("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"password\"");
sb.AppendLine("P#ssword");
// This is sent to the Post
byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(sb.ToString());
request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
requestStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
requestStream.Flush();
requestStream.Close();
using (WebResponse response = request.GetResponse())
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(reader.ReadToEnd());
}
}
}
}
Note:- PHP web site is a 3rd party, we have no access on code.
Thanks,
Ginni.
I want to implement a Payment service.I will create some values in code behind and then by using post method I have to post this values to Payment gateway and user must redirect to that page.
I can't Use form action becuase I have to create some values and save some thing in db in code behind.
how can I implement this?
If I can post data to another page on my app and can submit that page programmically it maybe help me.
Thanks
string url = "3rd Party Url";
StringBuilder postData = new StringBuilder();
postData.Append("first_name=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(txtFirstName.Text) + "&");
postData.Append("last_name=" + HttpUtility.UrlEncode(txtLastName.Text));
//ETC for all Form Elements
// Now to Send Data.
StreamWriter writer = null;
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.ContentLength = postData.ToString().Length;
try
{
writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream());
writer.Write(postData.ToString());
}
finally
{
if (writer != null)
writer.Close();
}
Response.Redirect("NewPage");
Have a look at this Poster
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46582/response-redirect-with-post-instead-of-get
I am writing a Web service client in C# which takes the URL of the web Service, and a web method name.
I want to check if thew Web method actually receives an int and returns a DataTable, and if this is true, it should call it and return the DataTable.
I have found a couple of posts where this is accomplished compiling dynamically the Proxy class.
But for my case this'd be too expensive, because the client is actually a WSS WebPart, and I don't want to do this every time the page is rendered; only when the properties are changed.
In the end of the day web service description is just an XML file. You can grab it by requesting service.asmx?WSDL:
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:1753/Service1.asmx?WSDL");
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8);
string xml = reader.ReadToEnd();
Once you have service description you can parse it and check method signature. Then, you can invoke the method using HTTP POST:
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:1753/Service1.asmx?HelloWorld");
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8";
byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(
#"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:soap12='http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope'>
<soap12:Body>
<HelloWorld xmlns='http://tempuri.org/' />
</soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>");
request.ContentLength = data.Length;
Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
requestStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
requestStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8);
string xml = reader.ReadToEnd();
If the Web Service is always the same (i.e. the method is the same as well as what it returns) and uit's just the url that might change, then just add a web reference to the project with the webpart in it, the set the Url of the proxy like so:
using (var serviceProxy = new ServiceProxy())
{
serviceProxy.Url = somepropertysetbythewebpart;
// make call to method here
}
After a lot of resarching I found out how to do it. The code of the selected answer is almost there, but I had to add the SOAPAction in the header and also change the ContentType.
Here is the entire code:
var strRequest = #"<soap12:Envelope>
...
</soap12:Envelope>";
string webServiceUrl = "http://localhost:8080/AccontService.svc";
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(webServiceUrl);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "text/xml;charset=UTF-8";
request.Accept = "text/xml";
request.Headers.Add("SOAPAction", "http://tempuri.org/IAccountService/UpdateAccount");
byte[] data = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(strRequest);
request.ContentLength = data.Length;
Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
requestStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
requestStream.Close();
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8);
string responseXmlString = reader.ReadToEnd();
return new HttpResponseMessage()
{
Content = new StringContent(responseXmlString, Encoding.UTF8, "application/xml")
};