Objective C - ASP.NET Authentication - asp.net

I am trying to login automatically into an ASP.NET website using NSMutableURLRequest. I am sending through all the post parameters I can think of, and it works well with other websites. (eg. Wordpress based). But I am unable to get it to work for ASP.net websites. Can someone please explain to me how I could go about this issue?
NSString *post = #"__LASTFOCUS=&__EVENTTARGET=&__EVENTARGUMENT=&__VIEWSTATE=%2FwEPDwUJNjM4NDU2MzY5ZGT%2F7rz73weImm5JbYQQ4q2lRY3HUw%3D%3D&__EVENTVALIDATION=%2FwEWBQK9gI6LAwKY4eTfDQKmw8%2B%2FAQLerrfAAwKQxuCGAT0xfZqPEPwFCfa5fbrvTZXDSnbY&ctl00%24SideBarContent%24UserName=demo&ctl00%24SideBarContent%24Password=demo&ctl00%24SideBarContent%24LoginButton=Login&ctl00%24SideBarContent%24UserTimeZoneCrawler%24offset=02%3A00%2C0";
NSData *postData = [post dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSString *postLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", [postData length]];
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[postRequest setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://asp.net/website/logon.aspx"]];
[postRequest setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
[postRequest setValue:postLength forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Length"];
[postRequest setValue:#"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Content-Type"];
[postRequest setHTTPBody:postData];
[postRequest setValue:#"loginCookie=UserName=demo; SessionContext=ydnwyyz5n50mt2zjn3yiarq0" forHTTPHeaderField:#"Cookie"];
Regards,
EZFrag

You might have to pass your username/password in with your URL.
[postRequest setURl:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://<username>:<password>#asp.net/website/login.aspx"]];

I ended up with letting the users enter their usernames and passwords manually every time. I am still open to any suggestions though.
Regards,
EZFrag

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