Re: Doing a POST

[Jason Chambers <tooger@bellsouth.net>]

Unless you really want to/have to build this yourself, you may want to look 
at something that has already been built.

I use cURL quite a lot but there is also wget.

http://curl.haxx.se/
http://www.wget.org/


At 11:22 AM 8/29/2003 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to replicate what a browser does when it connects
>to one of our sites.  Here is what I've caught when Mozilla accessed
>the page:
>
>POST /auth.asp HTTP/1.1^M
>Connection: Keep-Alive^M
>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)^M
>Referer: http://127.0.0.1/auth.asp^M
>Pragma: no-cache^M
>Cache-control: no-cache^M
>Accept: text/*, image/jpeg, image/png, image/*, */*^M
>Accept-Encoding: x-gzip, x-deflate, gzip, deflate, identity^M
>Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5^M
>Accept-Language: en^M
>Host: 127.0.0.1^M
>Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded^M
>Content-Length: 45^M
>^M
>login=super&password=smart&action_login=Login------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>I'm trying to replicate the post with the following java code
>
>         try {
>             URL url = new URL("http://127.0.0.1/auth.asp";);
>             HttpURLConnection connection = 
> (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
>             connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
>             connection.setRequestProperty("login", "super");
>             connection.setRequestProperty("password", "smart");
>             /*
>             connection.setRequestProperty(
>                 "Authorization",
>                 "Basic " + "cm9vdDpwYXNzd29yZA=="
>             );
>             */
>             BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new 
> InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
>             while((s = br.readLine()) != null) {
>                 System.out.println(s);
>             }
>         } catch (Exception Exp) {
>             System.err.println("Error: " + Exp.getMessage());
>             System.exit(1);
>         }
>
>
>Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong or what methods I should be
>using?
>
>Thanks,
>Chris