On 15/10/2008, boy456 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Dear friends
>
> I would like to ask about using Apache httpclient for retrieving knowledge
> from some online databases through forms.
> My problem is that there is one webpage that contains two forms on one page
> and I want to send only the second form, not the first one! Both forms have
> a search box and submit button.
> I thought that it might be enought to leave the NameValuePair parameters for
> the first form just blank. But the code below does not work.
There must be a difference between the forms, or the server will not
be able to distinguish which one has been used.
Either there is a different parameter value, or, more likely, the
Submit URL is different.
> Thanks for helping.
>
>
> import java.io.FileOutputStream;
> import java.io.IOException;
> import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
> import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
>
> public class SubmitHttpForm {
>
> private static String url =
> "http://www.website.com";;
>
> public static void main(String[] args) {
>
> //Instantiate an HttpClient
> HttpClient client = new HttpClient(new
> MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager());
>
> //Instantiate a GET HTTP method
> HttpMethod method = new GetMethod(url);
>
> //Define name-value pairs to set into the QueryString
> NameValuePair nvp1= new NameValuePair("search","");
> NameValuePair nvp2= new NameValuePair("submit","");
> NameValuePair nvp3= new NameValuePair("search","route");
> NameValuePair nvp3= new NameValuePair("submit","go");
>
> method.setQueryString(new NameValuePair[]{nvp1,nvp2, nvp3, nvp4});
>
> try{
> int statusCode = client.executeMethod(method);
>
> System.out.println("QueryString>>> "+method.getQueryString());
> System.out.println("Status Text>>>"
> +HttpStatus.getStatusText(statusCode));
>
> //Get data as a String
> System.out.println(method.getResponseBodyAsString());
>
> //OR as a byte array
> byte [] res = method.getResponseBody();
>
> //write to file
> FileOutputStream fos= new
> FileOutputStream("./output/donepage.html");
> fos.write(res);
>
> //release connection
> method.releaseConnection();
> }
> catch(IOException e) {
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
> }
> }
>
>
>
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