Thanks. I installed Live Http Headers in Firefox so now I can see the
exact headers as I go through the site manually. Hmm, not so easy to
get a trace to see what HttpClient is sending...
Switched to HttpUnit. Wow, so easy, I'm done. Why would anyone use
HttpClient when HttpUnit is available?
John
On 8/29/06, Roland Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello John,
> I used HttpClient to Post to a web page. The ResponseBody though is
> the original web page, almost as if I did a Get instead of a Post.
> The field I populated is populated in the HTML. It's as if I manually
> went to the web page, populated the field and didn't hit Enter or
> press the Submit button. Does this sound at all familiar?
>
> Here's my Jython code.
>
> client = HttpClient()
> postMethod = PostMethod('http://xyz.com')
> postMethod.addParameter('fieldName', '2174131320')
> statusCode = client.executeMethod(postMethod)
> assert statusCode == HttpStatus.SC_OK
> print getResponseBodyAsString()
Posting forms is not as easy as you seem to think.
Please follow the instructions in the primer:
http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-httpclient/ForAbsoluteBeginners
hope that helps,
Roland
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