12-21-04 12:49 PM
Thanks for the info David, at least I now know that it is our third parties
code and not commerce server, although it does seem strange that it appears
to distinguish between a WebClient and a web browser
Cheers
Paul
"David Messner [MSFT]" <davidme@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Did you create a CookieContainer in your custom client code? One of our
> developers recently hit a similar issue using cookies from custom client
> code and the magic ingredient was the correct usage of CookieContainer
> (he's on vacation or I'd get some sample code for you :-).
>
> I searched the CS2000 code base for "MSCSKey" and "MSCSSID". MSCSKey is
> not anywhere in our sources. MSCSSID showed up in some early
> (non-shipping) versions of the ASP solution sites. My guess is that this
> is a carryover from some Site Server site where the user id was typically
> called shopper id (SID).
>
> So these cookies are not baked into any Commerce Server object that I can
> find (not documented, not in our sources). They are likely coming from
> your site code.
>
> regards
> -djm
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> From: "Paul Davies" <paul_e_davies@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Commerce Server 2000 Returning MSCSSID
> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 11:11:47 -0000
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> Hi all
>
> Hoping someone may be able to explain why the following is happening, and
> help me with my questions.
>
> We have a 3rd party built application that is a web app built on commece
> server 2000, my task is to write a monitoring tool which will run as a
> scheduled task and will attempt to a) log into the application, b) peform
> a
> number of tests on the application.
>
> If I log into the app from my browser and view the source I see there is a
> MSCSSID and MSCSKey which I assume are required as part of the ongoing
> authentication process. This is fine.
>
> My App will not be a browser but will use HttpWebRequest and Response from
> the .Net 1.1 library but have noticed that the response, whilst appearing
> almost exactly the same as that returned by the browser is consistantly
> missing the the MSCSSID. I have checked the cookie collection and this
> empty.
>
> My Questions are something along the lines of - are the ID and Key that
> are
> returned an integral part of commerce server type sites? Am I correct in
> my
> assumption that both are required for ongoing authentication? If so why
> would the ID be returned to a browser and not a .Net WebRequest? Is there
> a
> way around the issue?
>
> Please excuse my complete ignorance of all things Commerce Server, this is
> the first time I have ever needed to understand it to any level.
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul Davies
>
>
>
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