How do I read a cookie in another Controller using c#.net?

Question

I have created the cookie from another controller and I can see it present in the browser, and now Im trying read a Cookie in another Controller in my Project but the word Cookies in Request.Cookies["MyCookie"]; is underlined red with the error saying:

Error 5: 'System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessage' does not contain a definition for 'Cookies' and no extension method 'Cookies' accepting a first argument of type 'System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessage' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

Here is my code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Web;
using System.Security;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web.Http;

namespace Project.Controllers
{
    public class UserController : ApiController
    {

        public String getCookie()
        {
            HttpCookie cookie = Request.Cookies["MyCookie"];
            string username;

            if(  cookie != null)
            {
                username = Request.Cookies["MyCookie"].Value;
            }

            return username;
        }

Im still new in C# .Net and I dont know how to solve this problem at all. Im using Visual Studio 2013. Can anyone help me, please?

Answer 1

Try this

string username="";
var cookie = Request.Headers.GetCookies("MyCookie").SingleOrDefault();

if (cookie != null)
{
    username = cookie["MyCookie"].Value;
}

Answer 2

The System.Net.Http.HttpRequestMessage object does not contain a cookies object. To access cookies in a WebAPI controller you need to look at the Request.Headers object like so:

CookieHeaderValue clientCookie = 
        Request.Headers.GetCookies("MyCookie").SingleOrDefault();
string username = clientCookie["MyCookie"].Value;