The solution: Formbased access to sharepoint by WebDav
June 23rd, 2009
In the first post of this serie I describe the problem which can be read here. In the second post of this serie I explained how the problem was analyzed using Live HTTP Headers which can be read here.
In this post I want to present you a possible solution how to achieve a succesful login on a sharepoint server which uses form based authorization. The WebDavSession from the ITHit component has unfortunately no public interface to set cookies from the outside (although I’m in contact with the developers there to see if they could provide some kind of access method to inject cookies). Therefore the internal cookie container of the WebDavSession must be extracted using System.Reflection.
