Can't get any cookies with C# HttpClient

Question

I'm trying to get cookies on the Spotify login page with C# and the HttpClient class. However, the CookieContainer is always empty when I know cookies are being set. I'm not sending any headers, but it should still give me the cookie(s) because when I send a GET request without any headers with python (requests module) I get the csrf token. Here's my code:

using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Task t = new Task(MakeRequest);
        t.Start();
        Console.WriteLine("Getting cookies!");
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    static async void MakeRequest()
    {
        CookieContainer cookies = new CookieContainer();
        HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();

        handler.CookieContainer = cookies;
        Uri uri = new Uri("https://accounts.spotify.com/en/login/?_locale=en-US&continue=https:%2F%2Fwww.spotify.com%2Fus%2Faccount%2Foverview%2F");
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler);
        var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
        string res = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
        Console.WriteLine(cookies.Count);
        foreach (var cookie in cookies.GetCookies(uri)) {
            Console.WriteLine(cookie.ToString());
        }
    }
}

It seems pretty simple to me, but the program always says there's 0 cookies. Anyone know what's going on?

Answer 1

You need to enable the use of cookies using HttpClientHandler.UseCookies Property

public bool UseCookies { get; set; }

Gets or sets a value that indicates whether the handler uses the CookieContainer property to store server cookies and uses these cookies when sending requests.

//...

CookieContainer cookies = new CookieContainer();
HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler();
handler.CookieContainer = cookies;
handler.UseCookies = true; //<-- Enable the use of cookies.

//...