Hello, I now have a solution to my problem, as I only needed to authenticate via HTTPS, encrypting username and password, get the session cookie, and use this cookie for future HTTP communication. However, I would like to understand why there was an IOException generated from a getResponseMessage(), even though the response from the server was:
Received authentication challenge is null Even though this would output to the log, the exception would be thrown: java.io.IOException: Received authentication challenge is null If I remove that line, the cookies are pulled from the header with no problem, and there is no exception. public void onClick(View v) { // Perform action on click try { URL url = new URL("https://www.mysite.com/session.xml"); HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection(); conn.setDoOutput(true); conn.setDoInput(true); conn.setRequestMethod("POST"); /* used this to force verification (from example http://25digital.blogspot.com/2008/02/account-authentication-api-y-android.html). This is a security problem, as host is no longer validated, though encryption remains between server and client * * needed because of Android bug http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/cd8d3ba7652fd99b * */ conn.setHostnameVerifier(new HostnameVerifier(){ public boolean verify (String hostname, SSLSession session) { return true; } }); OutputStreamWriter outputStreamWriter = new OutputStreamWriter (conn.getOutputStream()); outputStreamWriter.write("email=" + URLEncoder.encode("userName")); outputStreamWriter.write("&"); outputStreamWriter.write("password=" + URLEncoder.encode ("userPassword")); outputStreamWriter.flush(); outputStreamWriter.close(); // THIS FAILS Log.i("login", "Response message: " + conn.getResponseMessage()); String[] cookies = conn.getHeaderField("set-cookie").split(";"); } catch (Exception e) { Log.e("login", e.getMessage()); } } Thank you, Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---