My guess is that the "secure" flag is being set on this cookie. This flag means that the cookie should only be sent over secure(HTTPS) connections. You can get around this problem by manually adding a new cookie (HttpState.addCookie()) with the same values, but setting secure to false. The problem here is that the cookie is set to secure for a reason. My guess is that this cookie contains a session ID that if sniffed could be used to gain access to the server as the authenticated user. This may or may not be a concern in your situation.
Mike
On Apr 20, 2004, at 7:07 PM, Jean, Victor [IT] wrote:
Hello,
I'm having an issue where a cookie set by posting to a https:// link is not being recognized/picked up when i make a http:// call.
I'm using HttpClient and PostMethod to send username/password to be authenticated at the https link. Once authenticated, a cookie is set by the server and then I make a http call using GetMethod to access the link I need. However, the http call does not pickup the cookie and I get redirected to authenticate again. If I make a https get call after the cookie is set, the link works fine in detecting the cookie, the problem is with http calls. Can someone help by telling me how to make the cookie visible to http when it has been set by https?
Below is my sample code:
//Setup the httpclient HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); client.setTimeout(TIMEOUT); client.getState().setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.COMPATIBILITY);
Protocol.registerProtocol("https", new Protocol("https", new EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory(), 443));
String authenticationURL = "https://somelink";;
//Post the username/password to the authentication URL PostMethod postUserPasswod = new PostMethod(authenticationURL); postUserPasswod.setFollowRedirects(true); postUserPasswod.addParameter("USER",username); postUserPasswod.addParameter("PASSWORD",password);
//Execute the Post, If Successful a authentication cookie will be set
//Then continue executing the request
client.executeMethod(postUserPasswod);
GetMethod requestURL = new GetMethod("http://somelink/test.html";);
client.executeMethod(requestURL );
ins = new BufferedInputStream(requestURL .getResponseBodyAsStream());
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