problem regarding webclient...HELP please

[kingofquestions]

Actually i wanted to submit my username and password to a website to check whether its working properly or not. i got this idea when i was learning abt the webclient class in the system.net.. So i decided to check it with the gaming which i have a account on .. Then i coded a bit and created a real mess... Dono whats wrong with this even when i kno the username and password i mentioned are correct.. Kindly Help..plz

    Dim checker As New WebClient
        Dim data As Byte()
        Dim username As Char
        Dim password As Char
        Dim result As Byte()
        'Dim aa As String
       
        checker.Headers.Add("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")
        checker.Headers.Add("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)")
        data = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldofwarcraft.com%2Faccount%2Fmenu.html&accountName=" + _
                                username + "&password=" + password)
        result = checker.UploadData("https://us.battle.net/login/login.xml", "POST", data)
        'aa = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(result)
        If Encoding.ASCII.GetString(result).ToString.Contains("Game Account") Then
            TextBox1.Text = "accountvalid"
        Else
            TextBox1.Text = "account not valid"
        End If

[Bopo]

Is an error message occurring at all?

[keystone_paul]

I love these guessing games. How many goes do we get?

[kingofquestions]

there is not at all an error message it just displays "account not working"... actually i can able to manually login in the site
https://us.battle.net/login/login.xm...unt%2F&app=wam

[keystone_paul]

So the obvious question is what does this evaluate to?

Encoding.ASCII.GetString(result).ToString

[kingofquestions]

So the obvious question is what does this evaluate to?

Encoding.ASCII.GetString(result).ToString

Hmm the result actually contains the Html page contents.. so the Game Account is the text in the html page..

[kingofquestions]

help plz.... any1 alive?

[keystone_paul]

Hmm the result actually contains the Html page contents.. so the Game Account is the text in the html page..

Well obviously according to your code "Game Account" is not in the string, so either the HTML doesn't contain what you think it does, or your test is incorrect.

As your test is pretty simple (maybe incorrect case?) the most likely thing is that the HTML doesn't contain what you expect it to.

Have you tried evaluating the result in the immediate window, copying and pasting that to notepad and doing a Find, searching for "Game Account". Does that find it?

[kingofquestions]

yep it actually finds it... I guess the problem with that is the URl am using.. Since there is a lots of redirects..
Actually the main host stays as http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/ which redirects automatically redirects to https://us.battle.net/login/login.xm...unt%2F&app=wam the previous URI acts as a referrer here. when login is successful it redirects to the main host..

[Bopo]

Yeah that makes sense.

[kingofquestions]

hmmmm mind helping me with this problem dude???

[mendhak]

Blizzard/Battle.net have mechanisms in place to prevent this kind of thing from happening. For example, you'll see that they generate the source via XSLT. I'd suggest a simpler login form.

You need to make sure that when you call the form, you include all the fields that it's expecting. When viewing source on the page, look at the <input> fields.

[kingofquestions]

Blizzard/Battle.net have mechanisms in place to prevent this kind of thing from happening. For example, you'll see that they generate the source via XSLT. I'd suggest a simpler login form.

You need to make sure that when you call the form, you include all the fields that it's expecting. When viewing source on the page, look at the <input> fields.

mind explaining this to me bit clearly?? .. plz

[kingofquestions]

still need help