Ok, I've been trying this for 2 days now without success. I want to download data from a page in a website which uses basic authentication. After I automate a login to thehe website, opening a new page results in an expired session (meaning the cache navigation did not work out).
Here's the login details:

Username: 2010/170232
password: unn

After automating the login, the task is to download data from any other link (1 or 2) on the site.

The website is http://unnportal.com/cp/studentportal/std_framelogin.htm

I'd prefer ASP.NET or PHP for the code. Anyone?

Is this a programming challenge or you just need help? anways cookie name is ASPSESSIONIDACBDQTRR content was CIXXXAFBEGOIXXXLIDCFKXXX with this cookie the session will hold.

The login page return frames in the frames are .asp pages which reference the cookie, in this example I posted back the cookie to body_homepage.asp which returns the name, faculty etc. Tweak around to get the information you need. If you need more help post back here.

Dim unn As New System.Net.WebClient
Dim frmvalues As New NameValueCollection()
Dim container As New System.Net.CookieContainer
frmvalues.Add("institutioncode", "H4V9KLUT45AV"
frmvalues.Add("version", "2"
frmvalues.Add("password", "unn"
frmvalues.Add("loginname", "2010/170232"
unn.UploadValues("http://unnportal.com/cp/studentportal/homepage.asp", frmvalues)
Dim pageURI As New System.Uri("http://unnportal.com/cp/studentportal/body_homepage.asp")
container.SetCookies(pageURI, unn.ResponseHeaders(Net.HttpResponseHeader.SetCookie))
unn.Headers.Add(Net.HttpRequestHeader.Cookie, container.GetCookieHeader(pageURI))
       
Dim pageval As String
        
pageval = unn.DownloadString("http://unnportal.com/cp/studentportal/body_homepage.asp")
Response.Write("Reponse data:<br/>" + pageval)

@fayimora, doh! is homer on a rampage here?

@dell_net: That was quite helpful over there, Have been wasting my time trying to do it using HttpWebRequest. This was quite straight and easy, Thanks so much!