title: get cookies on a browser from winform c#
body: <p>im building an app that after the the user logs in to my web site the app goes to a link to get his user name so i will recognize him on the app.</p>
  
  <p>Now if i as a user login from a browser and then paste the like on that browser i will get a page with my username but if i do a web request from code i get an empty page.</p>
  
  <p>My question is how to open the url as a browser or how can i get the value of the cookie on a certin browser</p>
  
  <p>i have tryied</p>
  
  <pre><code>string s= GetHtmlPage("http://www.somedomain.com/account/show_cookies.php","Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 9.0; en-US)");
  
   static string GetHtmlPage(string strURL,string browser)
          {
              String strResult;
              System.Net.WebResponse objResponse;
  
              System.Net.WebRequest objRequest = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(strURL);
              ((System.Net.HttpWebRequest)objRequest).UserAgent =browser;
              objResponse = objRequest.GetResponse();
              using (System.IO.StreamReader sr = new System.IO.StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream()))
              {
                  strResult = sr.ReadToEnd();
                  sr.Close();
              }
              return strResult;
          }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But that also return a blank page.</p>