Too many automatic redirections were attempted.

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Hey guys, I have a console application which I'm trying to connect to my website and send back an authentication cookie. If I paste the url directly in to the browser the cookie is returned just fine but when I try connect through the console application I get the following error "Too many automatic redirections were attempted." when I hit the client.OpenRead(sUrl)

Any help is very much apreciated

Console Application

string sUrl = "http://localhost/CreateCookie.aspx?UserName=" + username + "&Password=" + password;

           client.Headers.Add("user-agent",
               "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)");

           using (Stream data = client.OpenRead(sUrl))
           {
               using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(data))
               {
                   strCookie = reader.ReadToEnd();
               }
           }

Web Page

Dim sUserName As String = Request.QueryString("UserName")
Dim sPassword As String = Request.QueryString("Password")

Dim ticket As FormsAuthenticationTicket = New FormsAuthenticationTicket(1, sUserName, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now.AddDays(30), False, _
"SignalR", FormsAuthentication.FormsCookiePath)
'/ Encrypt the ticket.
Dim encTicket As String = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket)
' // Create the cookie.
Response.Write(encTicket)
Response.End()