C#

1. Can anyone shed some light on SCP?
2. Any reason not to use FTP assuming I encrypt the files before transfer?

HttpWebRequest http = WebRequest.Create(LoginURL) as HttpWebRequest;
http.KeepAlive = true;
http.Method = "POST";
http.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
//http.CookieContainer = AuthCookies;
string postData = "languageCode=&reqType=&j_username=myuser&j_password=mypass&sign-in.x=29&sign-in.y=7";
byte[] dataBytes = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
http.ContentLength = postData.Length;

using (Stream postStream = http.GetRequestStream())
{
    postStream.Write(dataBytes, 0, dataBytes.Length);
}

HttpWebResponse httpResponse = http.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
//foreach (Cookie ck in httpResponse.Cookies)
//{
//  AuthCookies.Add(ck);
//}
using (Stream respStream = httpResponse.GetResponseStream())
{
    StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(respStream, Encoding.UTF8);
    File.WriteAllText("loginresp.html", reader.ReadToEnd());
    reader.Close();
}

//DOB Verify
httpResponse.Close();
HttpWebRequest http2 = WebRequest.Create(DOBVerifyURL) as HttpWebRequest;
http2.KeepAlive = true;
http2.Method = "POST";
http2.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
//http2.CookieContainer = AuthCookies;
http2.Headers["Cookie"] = httpResponse.Headers["Set-Cookie"];
http2.Referer = LoginURL;
http2.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.103 Safari/537.36";
postData = "reqType=&cmd=checkSecu&languageCode=&additionalHolderAuthValue=urlencodeddob&continue.x=86&continue.y=13";
dataBytes = UTF8Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
http2.ContentLength = postData.Length;
using (Stream postStream = http2.GetRequestStream())
{
    postStream.Write(dataBytes, 0, dataBytes.Length);
}
HttpWebResponse httpResponse2 = http2.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
//foreach (Cookie ck in httpResponse2.Cookies)
//{
//  AuthCookies.Add(ck);
//}
using (Stream respStream2 = httpResponse2.GetResponseStream())
{
    HttpWebRequest http3 = WebRequest.Create(AcctActivityURL) as HttpWebRequest;
    http3.KeepAlive = true;
    http3.ContentType = "text/html";
    //http3.CookieContainer = AuthCookies;
    http3.Headers["Cookie"] = httpResponse2.Headers["Set-Cookie"];
    http3.Referer = LoginURL;
    http3.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/48.0.2564.103 Safari/537.36";
    http3.AllowAutoRedirect = false;
    HttpWebResponse httpResponse3 = http3.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
    using (Stream respStream3 = httpResponse3.GetResponseStream())
    {
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(respStream3, Encoding.UTF8);
        File.WriteAllText("dobresp.html", reader.ReadToEnd());
        reader.Close();
    }
}