How to set session ID in http client 4.3

[Horst Weigelt]

|I want to logon to a https URL using Apache HTTP Client 4.3
The login fails. However I receive HTTP status 200 when posting the request.

One issue for the login failure might be that there is no session ID send in 
the|
|TLSv1 handshake protocol (Length: 0)

That raises 2 questions:
1) Is a session ID required for the login. If yes how can I set the session ID.
2) Is there something else missing in the Java code below (except for the 
correct URL + login/password ;-) )

This question is also posted (more or less identically) in
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19737218/session-id-missing-in-https-post-using-apache-httpclient-4-3



HttpClientContext  context=  HttpClientContext.create();

    /* to follow redirections */  
    RedirectStrategy  redirectStrategy=  new  LaxRedirectStrategy();

    RequestConfig  globalConfig=  RequestConfig.custom()
            .setCookieSpec(CookieSpecs.BEST_MATCH)
            .build();
    RequestConfig  localConfig=  RequestConfig.copy(globalConfig)
            .setCookieSpec(CookieSpecs.BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY)
            .build();

    try  {

        SSLContext  sslcontext=  SSLContexts.custom()
                .build();

        SSLConnectionSocketFactory  sslsf=  new  
SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslcontext,
                
SSLConnectionSocketFactory.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);

        /* setup client for https and redirections */
        httpclient=  HttpClients.custom()
                .setRedirectStrategy(redirectStrategy)
                .setSSLSocketFactory(sslsf)
                .build();


        HttpPost  httpost=  new  HttpPost("https://myURL";);
        httpost.setConfig(localConfig);

        /* set login and password */
        httpost.setEntity(new  UrlEncodedFormEntity(login_and_passwd,  
Consts.UTF_8));

        CloseableHttpResponse  httpresponse=  httpclient.execute(httpost);

        }
    }  finally  {
        httpclient.close();
    }
    return  httpclient;


Thanks for any help
Horst


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