Hi Oleg: Thanks for your reply. Two days ago I tried the FormLoginDemo, but after I saw your e-mail I tried again and got the following response, with my Sun Developer Id and password :
=============================================================================================================== Login form get: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Initial set of cookies: None Apr 28, 2004 10:05:24 AM org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase processRedirectResponse INFO: Redirect requested but followRedirects is disabled Login form post: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Logon cookies: - JDC=5719750140229660595 - JSESSIONID=developer.java.sun.com-e7b9%253A408fba23%253Af8cfb4dd3166b6ce - SessionCredentials=5213651892774654901 Redirect target: http://developer.java.sun.com/index.html Apr 28, 2004 10:05:24 AM org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase checkValidRedirect WARNING: Error getting URI host org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException: Redirect from host developer.java.sun.com to java.sun.com is not supported at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.checkValidRedirect(HttpMethodBase.java:1243) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.processRedirectResponse(HttpMethodBase.java:1191) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.isRetryNeeded(HttpMethodBase.java:977) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.execute(HttpMethodBase.java:1095) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:675) at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:529) at FormLoginDemo.main(FormLoginDemo.java:124) Apr 28, 2004 10:05:24 AM org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase processRedirectResponse WARNING: Invalid Redirect URI from: http://developer.java.sun.com:80/index.html to: http://java.sun.com/ Redirect: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily =============================================================================================================== The probelm with Yahoo login is even harder to understand, it seems Yahoo redirects several times, and it requires cookies, I tried the following lines, but it won't work : =============================================================================================================== System.getProperties().put("java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "HTTPClient"); String url="https://login.yahoo.com/config/login";; // String url="http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/";; HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); HttpMethod method = new GetMethod(url); try { // URL url=new URL("https://login.yahoo.com/config/login";); /* String Msg_Out=".fUpdate=1\n"+ ".tries=1\n"+ ".done=http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/\n"+ ".src=bc\n"+ ".intl=us\n"+ "login=javamr\n"+ "passwd=javatest\n"+ "submit=Login"; String Msg_Out=".fUpdate=1"+ "&.tries=1"+ "&.done=http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/"+ "&.src=bc"+ "&.intl=us"+ "&login=javamr"+ "&passwd=javatest"+ "&submit=Login"; // WriteFile Write_File=new WriteFile(url,Msg_Out); // taText.append(Write_File.Text_In.toString()); // NM_Lib.Display_HTML_In_Browser(Write_File.Text_In.toString()); // method.setQueryString(Msg_Out); */ NameValuePair N_V_P[]= { new NameValuePair(".fUpdate","1"), new NameValuePair(".tries","1"), new NameValuePair(".done","http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/";), new NameValuePair(".src","bc"), new NameValuePair(".intl","us"), new NameValuePair("login","javamr"), new NameValuePair("passwd","javatest"), new NameValuePair("submit","Login") }; method.setQueryString(N_V_P); client.executeMethod(method); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println(e.toString()); } String responseBody = method.getResponseBodyAsString(); method.releaseConnection(); // NM_Lib.Display_HTML_In_Browser(responseBody); } =============================================================================================================== For testing purpose I've created a Yahoo account ( Id : javamr / Password : javatest ), the result of the above code is another login page, I wonder if you can help my to login and download a page from Yahoo Briefcase. Thanks. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Oleg Kalnichevski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 6:25 PM To: Commons HttpClient Project Subject: Re: Yahoo login with Httpclient Frank, You need to use so called form-based login. Have a look at this sample application: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/httpclient/src/examples/FormLoginDemo.java?rev=1.1.2.1&only_with_tag=HTTPCLIENT_2_0_BRANCH&view=markup If it does not cut it for you, let me know. I may try to quickly hack it up for you (provided I do not get stamped with work (the one that helps me pay the bills I mean)) Oleg On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 00:08, Min (Frank) Ni wrote: > Hi: > > I've been trying to use Httpclient to programmatically login to Yahoo, but I am not > sure how to do it right, I've tried to follow the sample tutorials and nothing > seemed to work for me, I've also searched the web for answers, but failed, it seems > to me that Httpclient is the closest match for what I am looking for, can somebody > please help me ? > > Some sample code of how to use Httpclient to login to Yahoo would be very helpful, I > imagine if I supply username and password to it, I would get a page showing I'm > logged in, I am trying to update my Yahoo Briefcase and Yahoo Geocities pages with > my program. Is it possible to do that with Httpclient ? 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