[ale] OT: Java and Cookies

Fri Aug 29 14:02:35 EDT 2003

Here is the results of just seeing what comes back after I 
dump the headers and data to the webserver:

[cfowler at cfowler tmp]$ java Soc
HTTP/1.1 302 Redirect
Server: GoAhead-Webs
Date: Sun Nov 24 18:56:24 1929
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: pp_session_id=5CD7B1CFC4235F46FDDEEACC90BAD798E08780982E1E2E1E333198327F8C3B37; path=/
P3P: CP="NON DSP CURa OUR NOR UNI"
Location: http://127.0.0.1/home.asp

<html><head></head><body>
Moved to this location.
</body></html>

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:47:20PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm trying to do a POST and grab a cookie to be used for later 
> authentication. I hope that maybe you guys have done this
> before.  The aut.asp page is a simple POST form.  When the
> form is submitted it returns a frameset and a cookie.  I can
> not seem to get the the HttpURLConnection to get the cookie.  It
> seems that the conneciton does the post and then tries to
> receive each page of the framset.  However, I do not see
> and Cookies: being sent with those GET requests.  Is there a
> way to get this code to use the Set-Cookie that is being sent
> back.   
> 
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> 
>     public static void main(String args[]) {
>         InputStream is;
>         int data;
>         String s;
>         DataOutputStream    printout;
>         String c;
>         try {
>             URL url = new URL("http://127.0.0.1/auth.asp");
>             HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)u.openConnection();
>             String emit = "login=super&password=smart&action_login=Login";
>             connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", "" + emit.length());
>             connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
>             connection.setUseCaches (false);
>             connection.setDoInput(true);
>             connection.setDoOutput(true);
>             connection.setFollowRedirects(false);
>             /* Not used now
>             connection.setRequestProperty(
>                 "Authorization", 
>                 "Basic " + "cm9vdDpwYXNzd29yZA=="
>             );      
>             */
>             connection.setDoOutput(true);
>             connection.setDoInput(true);
>             printout = new DataOutputStream (connection.getOutputStream ());
>             printout.writeBytes (emit);
>             printout.flush ();
>             printout.close ();
>             c = connection.getHeaderField("Set-Cookie");
>             System.out.println("Cookie: " + c);
>             BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
>             System.out.flush();
>             while((s = br.readLine()) != null) {
>                 System.out.println(s);
>             }
>         } catch (Exception Exp) {
>             System.err.println("Error: " + Exp.getMessage());
>             System.exit(1);
>         }
>     }
> 
> 
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