WebClient - Am I logging in right, or being redirected right?

[Raygar]

Hi
I'm trying to figure out a way to log into a new site that a 3rd party vendor has provided us by using a script.
I'm new to web related coding.

Its a ticketing site. We have to log into it.
If you attempt to load up a URL directly to a ticket, you are redirected to the login window. Once you log on, you can then view the ticket.

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            string postData = "userName=Removed&password=Removed";
            HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("End URL's location");
            request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
            request.ContentLength = postData.Length;
            request.Method = "POST";
            request.AllowAutoRedirect = false;

            Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
            byte[] postBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postData);
            requestStream.Write(postBytes, 0, postBytes.Length);
            requestStream.Close();
            HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

            Console.WriteLine(new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd());
            Console.WriteLine("Headers:");
            Console.WriteLine(response.Headers.ToString());

            string url = "End URL's location";
            System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(url);
        }

The info that I keep downloading is the login's page html code. Not the ticket page's code.
Console's results (made it a bit easier to read):

<input type="hidden" name="redirectAction" value="Removed_request_dashboard">
<input type="hidden" name="userName" value="Removed">
<input type="hidden" name="inc_id" value="5045176">
<input type="hidden" name="password" value="Removed">


There must be a tiny bit of code I'm missing. The login info is there, but its not logging me in. Or perhaps its logging me in but not directing me properly afterwards.

[Raygar]

update...

The 'request' statements are now the following:

request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.ContentLength = postData.Length;
request.Method = "POST";
request.AllowAutoRedirect = true;
request.PreAuthenticate = true;
request.Credentials = System.Net.CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials;

The page loads up and has the username & password filled out in the login page.
How do you actually 'submit' it?


The end result is that I don't intend to actually open up the browsers to get the tickets. I plan on downloading the html code which contains the ticket info and parse it.

[Raygar]

string postData = "userName=Removed&password=Removed\r";
that worked...

I can directly log into a ticket now.
Still can't get the html code from it yet.

[Bopo]

Well I don't know if this will work, as I don't know how the site stores login sessions, therefore this may not think your logged in.

 private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            GetUrl("http://www.website.com/yourloginstring");
        }

        private void GetUrl(string url)
        {
            System.Net.WebClient Client = new System.Net.WebClient();
            string storeHtml = Client.DownloadString(url);
            }