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Asked: 2026-06-12T13:51:09+00:00

I’m writing a VB.NET program that needs to send data to a Django site,

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I’m writing a VB.NET program that needs to send data to a Django site, but the site is password protected. Therefore I need to log in first. The code I’m using right now is:

Dim reqT As HttpWebRequest
Dim resT As HttpWebResponse
reqT = WebRequest.Create("http://websiteURL/login/")
reqT.Method = "POST"

Dim Data As String
Data = "{""username"":""fakeusername""&""password"":""fakepassword""}"
Dim credArray As Byte() = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Data)
reqT.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
reqT.ContentLength = credArray.Length
Dim dataStreamT As Stream = reqT.GetRequestStream()
dataStreamT.Write(credArray, 0, credArray.Length)
dataStreamT.Close()

This is returning a 403 error from the webserver, unfortunately I’m not sure how to fix it. I think it might be the csrf failing or I might be formatting my POST data wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sounds like CSRF protection to me. The Django CSRF documentation is here:

    As per the How It Works section, your POST request will need to pass along the CSRF token, and the CSRF cookie.

    If you make a GET request to the login page, you should be able to grab the token from the HTML source. I’m guessing you’d also have access to the cookie?

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