depends on how the page is build, if there're pretty much js used for building the dom, httpclient will not help, it's not browser, i think htmlUnit use internally rhino (js-engine) which can help.
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Daniel Holm <[email protected]> wrote: > I use jsoup (http://jsoup.org/) to parse and extract values. Check out the > info about selector syntax in the jsoup cookbook, it's quite easy to use. > > Daniel > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 22:49, Stefan at WPF > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Thank you Ken, I have read the mentioned link, but that doesn't help me > ): > > I need to login to a website, which normally isn't a problem, but on the > > login page there's a hidden field with a specific value that needs to be > > send during the login (in addition to username and password). To send the > > value of this hidden field during the login process, I need to get it's > > value first - is that possible using httpclient? Normally I would say no > as > > it is no header field and something that needs to be parsed (not a task > of > > httpclient), but as httpclient can send forms, I am wondering if it maybe > > is possible and I yet just didn't see how to do that? > > > > 2012/1/30 Ken Krugler <[email protected]> > > > > > Assuming you've already read > > > http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/primer.html, could you > > > provide more details of what exactly you're trying to do with > HttpClient? > > > > > > -- Ken > > > > > > On Jan 30, 2012, at 12:56pm, Stefan at WPF wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > using Apache HTTPClient, is it possible to get the value of a form > > field > > > of > > > > a website? I guess that's already considered parsing and therefore > not > > > part > > > > of the httpclient? I am just a little bit irritated as it's possible > to > > > set > > > > form values when using http post. Thanks for you help :-) > > > > > > > > Best regards > > > > Stefan > > > > > > -------------------------- > > > Ken Krugler > > > http://www.scaleunlimited.com > > > custom big data solutions & training > > > Hadoop, Cascading, Mahout & Solr > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
