Hi Sean - Thanks for your reply. It didn't seem to work. However, I have dug deeper and found some clues.
It returns an empty string, but the http status is 302 redirect. Any idea why this could be happening? Thank you, Jin On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Sean R. McNamara < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jin, > > You may want to try to set > > _eventId=submit > > in your post. > > Not definitely sure this will help, but, it's worth a try. > > ..Sean. > > Jin Lee wrote: > >> Hi there all - >> >> Was wondering if you can give me a hand with a strange issue I am >> experiencing. I am trying to login through CAS using a ruby script in order >> to screen scrape some data on a protected webpage. >> >> What I did was issue a get request on login, take the lt=<ticket_id>, and >> post to login with lt, username, and password. >> >> Here is the code: >> >> uri = URI.parse(cas_login_url) >> http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port) >> http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE >> http.use_ssl = true >> req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path) >> req.set_form_data({'lt'=>ticket, 'username'=>username, >> 'password'=>password}) >> res = http.request(req) >> >> I've logged most of the activity going on here and I am posting to the >> correct URL, good on the ticket ID, username, and password. The response I >> get back is simply an empty string. I'm not sure why this is happening, when >> I issue a get request I can see the html coming in easily. >> >> Possible reasons: >> Do I need to set any http header like user agent, referer, etc (I think >> these are done for me automatically since a get request runs fine?) >> Something to do with SSL? >> Something to do with CAS rejecting ruby? >> >> Any help is greatly appreciated - >> >> Jin >> -- >> You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see >> http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user >> > > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user > -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
