On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 22:45 +0100, Mathias Söderberg wrote:
> Hi!
> I, like many others, are trying to login to a website using HttpClient and
> the PostMethod. When running the program I'm getting the following result:
> 
> Login form get: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Initial set of cookies:
> - PHPSESSID=4c3499e030f2e09c35e5af6fb20571f0
> - checksum=f2d870271e0887c854fd041ad746cb78
> Login form post: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Logon cookies:
> - PHPSESSID=4eb20a61a4a09f4cf89db46af25affb2
> - checksum=0a8a452f089ad78ce3b0ea670d0d8011
> 
> And since I'm not very familiar with either php or cookies I really don't
> know what to do next. I actually expected to get some kind of redirect or
> something, but now I don't get anything like that, so basically I need some
> help on what to do next.
> I'm not really sure i got the NameValuePairs correct either...
> 
> Here's the page source from the website for the form;
> 
> <form method="post" action="takelogin.php">
> <p>Note: You need cookies enabled to log in.</p>
> <table border="0" cellpadding=5>
> <tr><td class=rowhead>Username:</td><td align=left><input type="text"
> size=40 name="username" /></td></tr>
> <tr><td class=rowhead>Password:</td><td align=left><input
> type="password" size=40 name="password" /></td></tr>
> <!--<tr><td class=rowhead>Duration:</td><td align=left><input
> type=checkbox name=logout value='yes' checked>Log me out after 15
> minutes inactivity</td></tr>-->
> <tr><td colspan="2" align="center"><input name="login" type="submit"
> value="Log in!" class=btn></td></tr>
> </table>
> <input type="hidden" name="returnto" value="/" />
> </form>
> 
> 
> Any help is highly appreciated. Please guide me, I am in need of help.
> 

Please refer to the HttpClient HTTP Programming Primer

http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-httpclient/ForAbsoluteBeginners

Oleg


> Thanks
>   Mathias
> 
> 
> [CODE]
> import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
> import org.apache.commons.httpclient.cookie.CookiePolicy;
> import org.apache.commons.httpclient.cookie.CookieSpec;
> import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*;
> import java.io.*;
> import java.util.*;
> 
> /**
>  * <p>
>  * A example that demonstrates how HttpClient APIs can be used to perform
>  * form-based logon.
>  * </p>
>  *
>  * @author Oleg Kalnichevski
>  *
>  */
> public class FormBasedTest {
> 
>     static final String LOGON_SITE = "www.torrentbytes.net";
>     static final int LOGON_PORT = 80;
> 
>     public FormBasedTest() {
>         super();
>     }
> 
>     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
> 
>         System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.Log", "
> org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog");
>         System.setProperty("
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showdatetime", "true");
>         System.setProperty("
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.httpclient.wire.header", "debug");
>         System.setProperty("
> org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.org.apache.commons.httpclient",
> "debug");
> 
>         HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
>         client.getHostConfiguration().setHost(LOGON_SITE, LOGON_PORT,
> "http");
>         client.getParams().setCookiePolicy(
> CookiePolicy.BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY);
>         // 'developer.java.sun.com' has cookie compliance problems
>         // Their session cookie's domain attribute is in violation of the
> RFC2109
>         // We have to resort to using compatibility cookie policy
> 
>         GetMethod authget = new GetMethod("/login.php");
> 
>         client.executeMethod(authget);
> 
>         System.out.println("Login form get: " + authget.getStatusLine
> ().toString());
>         // release any connection resources used by the method
>         authget.releaseConnection();
>         // See if we got any cookies
>         CookieSpec cookiespec = CookiePolicy.getDefaultSpec();
>         Cookie[] initcookies = cookiespec.match(
>                 LOGON_SITE, LOGON_PORT, "/", false, client.getState
> ().getCookies());
>         System.out.println("Initial set of cookies:");
>         if (initcookies.length == 0) {
>             System.out.println("None");
>         } else {
>             for (int i = 0; i < initcookies.length; i++) {
>                 System.out.println("- " + initcookies[i].toString());
>             }
>         }
> 
>         PostMethod authpost = new PostMethod("/login.php");
>         // Prepare login parameters
>         NameValuePair action = new NameValuePair("action", "takelogin.php");
>         NameValuePair userid = new NameValuePair("username", "username");
>         NameValuePair password = new NameValuePair("password", "password");
>         NameValuePair login = new NameValuePair("login", "Log in!");
>         NameValuePair hidden = new NameValuePair("returnto", "/browse.php");
>         authpost.setRequestBody(
>                 new NameValuePair[]{action, userid, password, login,
> hidden});
> 
>         client.executeMethod(authpost);
>         System.out.println("Login form post: " + authpost.getStatusLine
> ().toString());
>         // release any connection resources used by the method
>         authpost.releaseConnection();
> 
>         // See if we got any cookies
>         // The only way of telling whether logon succeeded is
>         // by finding a session cookie
>         Cookie[] logoncookies = cookiespec.match(
>                 LOGON_SITE, LOGON_PORT, "/", false,
>                 client.getState().getCookies());
> 
>         System.out.println("Logon cookies:");
> 
>         if (logoncookies.length == 0) {
> 
>             System.out.println("None");
> 
>         } else {
> 
>             for (int i = 0; i < logoncookies.length; i++) {
>                 System.out.println("- " + logoncookies[i].toString());
>             }
> 
>         }
> 
>         // Usually a successful form-based login results in a redicrect to
>         // another url
>         int statuscode = authpost.getStatusCode();
> 
>         if ((statuscode == HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_TEMPORARILY) ||
>                 (statuscode == HttpStatus.SC_MOVED_PERMANENTLY) ||
>                 (statuscode == HttpStatus.SC_SEE_OTHER) ||
>                 (statuscode == HttpStatus.SC_TEMPORARY_REDIRECT)) {
> 
>             Header header = authpost.getResponseHeader("location");
> 
>             if (header != null) {
> 
>                 String newuri = header.getValue();
> 
>                 if ((newuri == null) || (newuri.equals(""))) {
>                     newuri = "/";
>                 }
> 
>                 System.out.println("Redirect target: " + newuri);
>                 GetMethod redirect = new GetMethod(newuri);
> 
>                 client.executeMethod(redirect);
>                 System.out.println("Redirect: " +
>                         redirect.getStatusLine().toString());
> 
>                 // release any connection resources used by the method
>                 redirect.releaseConnection();
> 
>             } else {
> 
>                 System.out.println("Invalid redirect");
>                 System.exit(1);
> 
>             }
>         }
>     }
> }
> [/CODE]


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