c# Winforms WebBrowser - Clear all cookies

Hello,

I recently search for a method to delete all cookies from the build in .NET WinForms WebBrowser control.

I didn't found any working solution for it, nor working example.

It being told to use InternetSetOption, but nothing found about it.

So, i will write here my solution for clearing and deleting all cookies.

My solution using InternetSetOption with the option flag: INTERNET_OPTION_SUPPRESS_BEHAVIOR, which described as:

A general purpose option that is used to suppress behaviors on a process-wide basis. The lpBuffer parameter of the function must be a pointer to a DWORD containing the specific behavior to suppress. This option cannot be queried with InternetQueryOption.

This option flag should be used together with INTERNET_SUPPRESS_COOKIE_PERSIST options, which means:

Suppresses the persistence of cookies, even if the server has specified them as persistent.

So the example code for it will be:

static void Main()
{
    SuppressWininetBehavior();

    Application.EnableVisualStyles();
    Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
    Application.Run(new Form1());
}

[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("wininet.dll", CharSet = System.Runtime.InteropServices.CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
public static extern bool InternetSetOption(int hInternet, int dwOption, IntPtr lpBuffer, int dwBufferLength);

private static unsafe void SuppressWininetBehavior()
{
    /* SOURCE: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa385328%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
        * INTERNET_OPTION_SUPPRESS_BEHAVIOR (81):
        *      A general purpose option that is used to suppress behaviors on a process-wide basis. 
        *      The lpBuffer parameter of the function must be a pointer to a DWORD containing the specific behavior to suppress. 
        *      This option cannot be queried with InternetQueryOption. 
        *      
        * INTERNET_SUPPRESS_COOKIE_PERSIST (3):
        *      Suppresses the persistence of cookies, even if the server has specified them as persistent.
        *      Version:  Requires Internet Explorer 8.0 or later.
        */

    int option = (int)3/* INTERNET_SUPPRESS_COOKIE_PERSIST*/;
    int* optionPtr = &option;

    bool success = InternetSetOption(0, 81/*INTERNET_OPTION_SUPPRESS_BEHAVIOR*/, new IntPtr(optionPtr), sizeof(int));
    if (!success)
    {
        MessageBox.Show("Something went wrong !>?");
    }
}

Please make sure your project is allows unsafe code. (under Properties => Build Tab)

This code is deleting the COOKIES per PROCESS on startup ONLY.
[tested on WIN-7 and working great]


Best Regards,
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MySQL xpath ExtractValue with delimiter

Hello,

I recently noticed the XPATH option inside MySQL.

What a wonderfull way for handling XML. (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/xml-functions.html)

I used ExtractFunction, and noticed that this function is space delimited:

Because ExtractValue() returns multiple matches as a single space-delimited string

So I needed to create the same function with custom text delimted (comma, semi-colon or anything you want).

The function called: EXTRACTVALUE_ALL which is the same as EXTRACTVALUE just get a delimiter text to seperate between results. (seperated text).
Tested on MySQL 5.5.28.

 

Create Function CODE:

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS EXTRACTVALUE_ALL;


DELIMITER |
CREATE FUNCTION EXTRACTVALUE_ALL(p_xml TEXT, p_xpathExpr TEXT, p_delimiter TEXT) RETURNS TEXT
BEGIN
DECLARE total_elements INT;
DECLARE xpath_expression_count, xpath_expression_index  TEXT;
DECLARE single_tag, result  TEXT;

# calc TOTAL elements
SET xpath_expression_count = CONCAT('count(', p_xpathExpr, ')');
SELECT EXTRACTVALUE(p_xml, xpath_expression_count) INTO total_elements;

# run over elements (create long text)
SET result = '';
SET xpath_expression_index = CONCAT(p_xpathExpr, '[$@i]');
SET @i = 1;
WHILE @i <= total_elements DO
SET single_tag = EXTRACTVALUE(p_xml, xpath_expression_index);
SET result = IF(result='', single_tag, CONCAT(result, p_delimiter, single_tag));
SET @i = @i + 1;
END WHILE;

# return total result
RETURN result;
END |

Usage Code:

SET @XXXMMMMLLL = '  time1   time2 ';

SELECT EXTRACTVALUE_ALL(@XXXMMMMLLL, '/descendant-or-self::time', '  |  ');

Output:

time1  |  time2

Rememeber that you will need a MYSQL permission for creating new functions.

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NSIS - Launch a program as user from UAC elevated installer

NSIS - Launch a program as user from UAC elevated installer

==========================================

I noticed that if a program is running as UAC elevated (admin or high user privileges), 

any opening process by this process will get the same privileges as the executing program,

which means, that any process opened by this UAC elevated program will be elevated also.

I found a solution for it, for opening the process UN-ELEVATED from ELEVATED running program.
I show this information as for NSIS installer, but can be used in ANY development environment (C#, NSIS, C++, JAVA, VB, and any).

The idea is to run the process in UN-ELEVATED mode, using windows's file explorer process `explorer.exe` (info).
Lets say the process that we want to launch is on `$TEMP\MyUnElevatedProcess.exe`.
So, for NSIS code, I will just write:

Exec '"$WINDIR\explorer.exe" "$TEMP\MyUnElevatedProcess.exe"'

And this will do the work...
The process `MyUnElevatedProcess.exe` will run with same ELEVATION that have your windows login, as have `$WINDIR\explorer.exe`.


Execute with parameters:
In addition, if the UN-ELEVATED process need to executed with parameters, you will need to create another file that executes the UN-ELEVATED process (for example a BATCH file which just run the process with the command line parameters).
a good example can be:

; assuming that the file `MyUnElevatedProcess.exe` exists on `$TEMP\`

; create shortcut with ARGUMENTS
CreateShortCut "$TEMP\Shortcut.lnk" "$TEMP\MyUnElevatedProcess.exe" "/arg1 /arg2 /arg3"

; execute the file NON elevated
Exec '"$WINDIR\explorer.exe" "$TEMP\Shortcut.lnk"'

Remember,
if your main program (the executing), is not ELEVATED, this logic is not relevant, because then you can just run `Exec` (open-process function in NSIS) which will have the same elevation as your process.

I hope it helps,
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