Because not everyone uses HttpClient in the way that you wanted to use it.
I myself am using HttpComponents (core) and I am not writing a testing
application.
But thanks for the live headers tip ... that will prove to be invaluable.
Doug
On 8/29/06, John Mudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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