C# 0 The Complete Reference

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The name of the cookie is contained in 

Name

, and its value is found in 

Value

.

To obtain a list of the cookies associated with a response, you must supply a cookie 

container with the request. For this purpose, 

HttpWebRequest

 defines the property 

CookieContainer

, shown here:

public CookieContainer CookieContainer { get; set; }

CookieContainer

 provides various fields, properties, and methods that let you store cookies. 

By default, this property is null. To use cookies, you must set it equal to an instance of 

the

CookieContainer

 class. For many applications, you won’t need to work with the 

CookieContainer

 property directly. Instead, you will use the