Hello Charles, you suspect correctly, the login form comes from https://reg.racingpost.co.uk/cde/login_iframe.sd as you can easily verify by accessing that URL directly in your browser. From there, the login form is sent as a POST request to reg.racingpost.co.uk
HttpClient can deal with the requests that need to be sent to the server. Unfortunately, there is plenty of JavaScript in www.racingpost.co.uk, and HttpClient won't help you with that. Also, the interaction between www.racingpost.co.uk and reg.racingpost.co.uk needs further analysis. In the easiest case, reg.racingpost.co.uk sets a cookie for .racingpost.co.uk as the result of the successful login. Then, you can use HttpClient without a problem. I suggest you try and send the equivalent of the POST request that is generated in the login IFrame and see what comes back. If you have problems with SSL support, you can refer to the SSL guide at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/sslguide.html and to the mailing list archives. cheers, Roland "Charles Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11.01.2004 21:44 Please respond to "Commons HttpClient Project" To: "Commons HttpClient Project" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Horseplay - https My objective is to log in to this site using httpclient: http://www.racingpost.co.uk/horses The first problem is that I can't see the connection between the following request (gleaned from my browser + proxy) and the login form you see at the top of the page. Evidently this GET request (why no POST?) has an encrypted parameter string. Where has it come from? Where has the parameter name come from? Is it anything to do with this, which is in the page?: <IFRAME SRC="https://reg.racingpost.co.uk/cde/login_iframe.sd"; etc. Can httpclient cope? Here's the request: 2. Then log in using the button at the top: ------------------------------------------ REQUEST ------- GET /horses/?MIval=rp_reg_init&TMP_CK_CK=%7Fv%7Dw5u%2F2%23%24%22VML%5BCUGBJY HTTP/1.1 Host: www.racingpost.co.uk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 Accept: text/xml, application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/html;q=0.9, image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif;q=0.2, text/plain;q=0.8, text/css, */*;q=0.1 Accept-Language: en-gb Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9 Accept-Charset: utf-8, * Keep-Alive: 300 Cookie: session.ID=IDa200fff6130d72; PermRpLogin=httpclient --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
