Kaushik, Usually java.net.UnknownHostException means that your DNS cannot resolve a host name to its respective IP address. This problem has nothing to do with form-based login or HttpClient as such. Please make sure that your TCP/IP stack is setup properly.
Oleg On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 02:09, Kaushik Lakshmanan wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to uses the FormLoginDemo.java example to > log on to automate logging in to a website. > > There are couple of parameters that I have set in the > program > > static final String LOGON_SITE = > "http://www.imdb.com/register/login"; > static final int LOGON_PORT = 80; > > The other parameters that I set were the > NameValuepairs > > NameValuePair action = new NameValuePair("action", > "login"); > NameValuePair url = new NameValuePair("url", > "/index.html"); > NameValuePair userid = new NameValuePair("login", > "user"); > NameValuePair password = new > NameValuePair("password", "passwd"); > > where instead of "user" and "passwd" I used my own > username and password. > > The program throws a java.net.UnknownHostException: > www.imdb.com/register/login > > Please do let me know if I am doing something wrong. > > thanks in advance, > --Kaushik > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]