The difference between HttpCookie and Cookie?

Question

So I'm confused as msdn and other tutorials tell me to use HttpCookies to add cookies via Response.Cookies.Add(cookie). But that's the problem. Response.Cookies.Add only accepts Cookies and not HttpCookies and I get this error:

cannot convert from 'System.Net.CookieContainer' to 'System.Net.Cookie'

Additionally, what's the difference between Response.Cookies.Add(cookie) and Request.CookieContainer.Add(cookie)?

Thanks for the help in advance, I'm trying to teach myself using C#.

// Cookie
Cookie MyCookie = new Cookie();
MyCookie.Name = "sid";
MyCookie.Value = SID;
MyCookie.HttpOnly = true;
MyCookie.Domain = ".domain.com";

// HttpCookie
HttpCookie MyCookie = new HttpCookie("sid");
MyCookie.Value = SID;
MyCookie.HttpOnly = true;
MyCookie.Domain = ".domain.com";

Response.Cookies.Add(MyCookie);

Crystie

Answer 1

You are using System.Net.HttpWebResponse. But the above example uses System.Web.HttpResponse which takes System.Web.HttpCookie as a parameter.

Scott Allen

System.Web.HttpRequest is a class used on the server and inside an ASP.NET application. It represents the incoming request from a client.

System.Net.HttpWebRequest is a class used to make an outgoing request to a web application.

Adlai

So the next question is how does one grab the authentication cookie from the incoming request to pass to the outgoing request? – Psychogenic