Automatic router rebooter

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Hello!

I would like to make a program which automatically reboots the router if it disconenct from the internet.

Now, it navigates to the right site, but there's a button called Reboot.

properties:

input type="submit" class="buttonText" value="Reboot" style="cursor:hand"

What I can't do is pressing that button by webrequest. What I've done already:

WebRequest myReq = WebRequest.Create("http://192.168.1.254/GBreboot.htm");
            string username = "name";
            string password = "pw";
            string usernamePassword = username + ":" + password;
            CredentialCache mycache = new CredentialCache();
            mycache.Add(new Uri("http://192.168.1.254/GBreboot.htm"), "Basic", new NetworkCredential(username, password));
            myReq.Credentials = mycache;
            myReq.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(new ASCIIEncoding().GetBytes(usernamePassword)));

            WebResponse wr = myReq.GetResponse();
            Stream receiveStream = wr.GetResponseStream();
            WebResponse response = (WebResponse)myReq.GetResponse();
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8);
            string resphtml = reader.ReadToEnd();

Any ideas?

Posted 20-Dec-10 4:15am

velvet7

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Solution 1

This might help, but no guarantees:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winforms/thread/0d33e2f4-f9f7-4174-8dc3-6ee2fb8130e4[^]

Posted 20-Dec-10 4:23am

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velvet7 20-Dec-10 10:35am

Thanks for the answer! Tried myReq.Method = "REBOOT" (this is what they write), but it gives an error:The remote server returned an error: (501) Not Implemented.

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-20T04:32:00

Solution 2

You can try to find out what request is being sent by the browser when you actually press the button yourself. Use a tool like Fiddler2[^] for that.
Then in the first step you do what you did in your existing code to setup an authenticated session. The second step would be to send a request like the one you traced with Fiddler but useing the session information from the first step (session cookies or whatever).

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Manfred

Posted 20-Dec-10 4:32am

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

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velvet7 20-Dec-10 10:44am

Yea, thanks. Worked pretty well, I just had to go to /man.cgi?redirect=GBstart.htm%3Fsec%3D30&failure=fail.htm&type=reboot
(which Fiddler2 write) But I still would like to know how to click on a button:) But that was the main question!

fjdiewornncalwe 20-Dec-10 11:12am

Great answer, Manfred. Tschuess...

Manfred Rudolf Bihy 20-Dec-10 12:24pm

@Marcus: Thanks!
@Velvet7: Nice that it works now. Is that clickety thing still some requirement or now just out of curiosity?

velvet7 20-Dec-10 15:27pm

Well, I'm still interested in that thing, so if you can find out a solution for it that would be nice.