Hello to all of you!
I don't know if it is common on this mailing-list to introduce yourself as a
new member, so I just briefly tell you that my name is Thilo, that I am from
Germany and that I'm currently working on a project that includes logging
into username/password-protected websites and retrieving certain information
from there.
I started using JDK-standard-classes (such as reader/writer/UrlConnection)
and had some success in simulating submitting HTTP-Forms via post to
webservers, but never could get a session-cookie. In a NG I was recommended the
Jakarta HTTPClient, so I got the latest nightly build (I was also told that these
were already very stable). Using parts of the examples, I established
communication with the reverse-servlet at java.sun.com without problems.
Secondly, I tried logging into the developer-area at java.sun.com (what I
had already done using the standard-classes, but without being able to get the
session-cookie). The response-code the server sends is 302, the body of the
HTTP-Response is empty.
Moreover, I am shown the following hint:
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27.08.2002 14:14:18 org.apache.commons.logging.impl.Jdk14Logger info
INFO: Redirect requested but followRedirects is disabled
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I don't really understand this, because using 'setFollowRedirects(true)', I
have told my POST-method to follow redirects.
At the end you can see an excerpt of my code (at this point, I - still - do
noct handle the session cookie).
If anybody has any idea what I am doing wrong, I'd be very pleased if he/she
told me :-)
Thanks in advance
Thilo
Code-Excerpt:
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PostMethod post = new PostMethod();
post.setRequestBody(sendString);
if ( (myURL.getPath() == null) || (myURL.getPath().length() == 0) )
{
post.setPath("/");
}
else
{
post.setPath(myURL.getPath());
}
post.setFollowRedirects(true);
HttpClient hc = new HttpClient();
hc.startSession(myURL);
int iResultCode = hc.executeMethod(post);
System.out.println("iResultCode = " + iResultCode);
byte[] yaResponse = post.getResponseBody();
System.out.println("Server response:");
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new
FileWriter("C:\\temp\\mytest.htm"));
out.write(new String(yaResponse));
out.close();
hc.endSession();
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