Posting with HttpClient

[roshik]

Please could someone help me. Why does the following code not work? It keeps reloading the same page instead of going on to the next page.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*;

public class PostTest {
public static void main( String[] args ) {

String url = "

http://mail.yahoo.com";

try {
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
PostMethod method = new PostMethod( url );

method.setDoAuthentication(true);

// Configure the form parameters
method.addParameter( "login", "myuserid");
method.addParameter( "passwd", "mypassword" );

// Execute the POST method
int statusCode = client.executeMethod( method );
if( statusCode != -1 ) {
String contents = method.getResponseBodyAsString();

File name = new Fil("C:/project/test.html");
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(name);

try {
fw.write(contents);
} catch (IOException e) {
}
method.releaseConnection();
fw.close();
}
}
catch( Exception e ) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

 

[stefanwagner]

Don't hide exceptions and then ask for help.

     try {
            fw.write(contents);
        } catch (IOException e) {
        }

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[roshik]

stefanwagner,
I'm sorry, are u telling me that I am not printing out what is in the exception u have pointed out?
Well even when i do printStackTrace(), there is no exception.

The message I get is:

18-Jun-2005 02:09:29 org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase getResponseBody
WARNING: Going to buffer response body of large or unknown size. Using getResponseAsStream instead is recommended.

I've tried using getResponseAsStream as well but the same login page is loaded.

 

[byam]

Your code only makes call to one page. It won't go the next page unless you make another call, right?