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webresponse from 3rd party, using their given API, C#

I'm new to C#. I want to send message from a desktop app using C#, for that I bought an API from a mobile company (Telenor). According to their documents first I'll have to get authentication ID by sending request to this URL (https://telenorcsms.com.pk:27677/corporate_sms2/api/auth.jsp?msisdn=xxxx&password=xxx) and it gives me response in XML format like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<corpsms>
  <command>Auth_request</command>
  <data>Session ID</data>
  <response>OK</response>
</corpsms>

Now I need the session ID which is in <data> node, to use further for sending message like (https://telenorcsms.com.pk:27677/corporate_sms2/api/sendsms.jsp?session_id=xxxx&to=923xxxxxxxxx,923xxxxxxxxx,923xxxxxxxxx&text=xxxx&mask=xxxx).

I tried many methods to bring out the session ID and use it but have got no idea, how to do it. its my code:

WebClient client = new WebClient ();
client.Headers.Add ("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)");
Stream data = client.OpenRead ("https://telenorcsms.com.pk:27677/corporate_sms2/api/auth.jsp?msisdn=xxxx&password=xxx");
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader (data);
StreamReader objreadr = new StreamReader(data);
string s = reader.ReadToEnd();
Solution

  • You can use Linq to Xml

    var sessionid = XDocument.Parse(s).Descendants("data").First().Value;