The story begins here: from the following URL, if you enter people's name, it will return either the person's info, or return "There were no matches to your search criteria. Please try again."
http://watiam.uwaterloo.ca/search/search.jsp I tried using httpclient, as well as httpcore. The result is the same, neither such info is included in the result. The result is an HTML page with everything as shown from a browser, WITHOUT the sensitive information. I am attaching my script here, anybody knows what special handling I am missing when dealing with the response part? import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*; import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*; import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpMethodParams; import java.io.*; public class HttpClientTutorial { private static String url = "http://watiam.uwaterloo.ca/search/search.jsp "; public static void main(String[] args) { // Create an instance of HttpClient. HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); // Create a method instance. PostMethod method = new PostMethod(url); // Provide custom retry handler is necessary method.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.RETRY_HANDLER, new DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler(3, false)); NameValuePair[] data = { new NameValuePair("givenname","James"), new NameValuePair("surname","David") }; method.setRequestBody(data); try { // Execute the method. int statusCode = client.executeMethod(method); if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK) { System.err.println("Method failed: " + method.getStatusLine()); } // Read the response body. byte[] responseBody = method.getResponseBody(); // Deal with the response. // Use caution: ensure correct character encoding and is not binary data System.out.println(new String(responseBody)); responseBody = method.getResponseBody(); // Deal with the response. // Use caution: ensure correct character encoding and is not binary data System.out.println(new String(responseBody)); } catch (HttpException e) { System.err.println("Fatal protocol violation: " + e.getMessage()); e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { System.err.println("Fatal transport error: " + e.getMessage()); e.printStackTrace(); } finally { // Release the connection. method.releaseConnection(); } } }
