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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 15:22:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Desholo <duccio.magini@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Retrieve HTML code after POST request
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olegk wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 07:21 -0800, Desholo wrote:
>> Hello everyone!
>> I'm new with HttpClient package so my question could be found silly, but
>> I
>> searched a solution for some time with no answer.
>> I've to do an application that performs a POST request in a certain host,
>> then navigates some pages, finds and retrieves some data and waits for
>> instructions.
>> I've found lots of examples about POST request but no one seems to work.
>> After the request always get back the form page, as the server doesn't
>> receive or ignore the POST.
>> I'm using the last version of HttpClient (4.1).
>> This is the code I'm using to send the POST request (is the one in the
>> Apache site [
>> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/examples/org/apache/http/examples/client/ClientFormLogin.java
>> link ]):
>> 
>> 	DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
>> 
>>         List<Cookie> cookies = httpclient.getCookieStore().getCookies();
>>         
>>         HttpPost httpost = new
>> HttpPost("http://localhost/prova/index.html");
>> 
>>         List <NameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList <NameValuePair>();
>>         nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("user", "prova"));
>>         nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", "prova"));
>> 
>>         httpost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nvps, HTTP.UTF_8));
>> 
>>         HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpost);
>>         HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
>> 
>>         System.out.println("Login form get: " +
>> response.getStatusLine());
>>         if (entity != null) {
>>             entity.consumeContent();
>>         }
>> 
>>         System.out.println("Post logon cookies:");
>>         cookies = httpclient.getCookieStore().getCookies();
>>         if (cookies.isEmpty()) {
>>             System.out.println("None");
>>         } else {
>>             for (int i = 0; i < cookies.size(); i++) {
>>                 System.out.println("- " + cookies.get(i).toString());
>>             }
>>         }
>> 
>> I'd like to know if the code I'm using is correct, how to retrieve the
>> HTML
>> code of the target page of the form and if I can continue to navigate the
>> site without the session expires.
> 
> 
> Login related questions are notoriously difficult as different sites
> tend to handle authentication differently. It is very unlikely you are
> going to get any help unless you are prepared to do most of the work by
> yourself: (1) capture HTTP sessions generated by a browser during the
> authentication process using a packet sniffer or a browser plugin (2)
> simulate the process using HttpClient.
> 
> Oleg 
> 

Thanks for help Oleg! I would like to understand how HttpClient works, so I
created locally a simple login form with php, without any cookie or session
variable.
I'm unable to understand if the code above works!
This is what I get from the debug outputs:

   Login form get: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
   Post logon cookies:
   None

What interest me most is to know how to see if the POST request is
successful or not. And so i would like to retrieve the HTML code of the
response page.

Thank you again,

Duccio
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