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CookieContainer.SetCookies Method

.NET Framework 4.5

Adds Cookie instances for one or more cookies from an HTTP cookie header to the CookieContainer for a specific URI.

Namespace: System.Net
Assembly: System (in System.dll)

'Declaration
Public Sub SetCookies ( _
	uri As Uri, _
	cookieHeader As String _
)

Parameters

uri: Type: System.Uri
The URI of the CookieCollection.

cookieHeader: Type: System.String
The contents of an HTTP set-cookie header as returned by a HTTP server, with Cookie instances delimited by commas.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	uri is Nothing.
ArgumentNullException	cookieHeader is Nothing.
CookieException	One of the cookies is invalid. -or- An error occurred while adding one of the cookies to the container.

Exception

Condition

ArgumentNullException

uri is Nothing.

ArgumentNullException

cookieHeader is Nothing.

CookieException

One of the cookies is invalid.

-or-

An error occurred while adding one of the cookies to the container.

Remarks

SetCookies pulls all the HTTP cookies out of the HTTP cookie header, builds a Cookie for each one, and then adds each Cookie to the internal CookieCollection that is associated with the URI. The HTTP cookies in the cookieHeader string must be delimited by commas.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Portable Class Library

Supported in: Portable Class Library

.NET for Windows Store apps

Supported in: Windows 8

Platforms

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Reference

CookieContainer Class

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