Http authorisation username/password login

FireHydrant

Hey,

<input type="hidden" name="logintype" value="banner" />
<div id='playerBox'>
        <div style="margin-left:5px;">
                <div style="padding-bottom:7px"><h2>Registered users</h2></div>
                <div style="margin:0px 0px 7px 0px">Existing players, log in here.</div>
                <!-- login form starts -->                
                <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
                        <tr>
                                <td class="formTagCell">Email</td>
                                <td class="formInputCell"><input type="text" name="email" id="email" maxlength="50" style="width:170px;padding:3px" /></td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                                <td class="formTagCell">Password</td>
                                <td class="formInputCell"><input type="password" name="password" id="password" maxlength="50" style="width:170px;padding:3px" /></td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                                <td class="formTagCell">&nbsp;</td>
                                <td class="formInputCell"><div class="smallText"><a href="forgotten.asp">Forgotten email or password? <br />Changed email? Click here &raquo;</a></div></td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                                <td class="formTagCell">&nbsp;</td>
                                <td class="formInputCell" style="padding-top:5px;"><input type="image" src="_root/home/images/buttons/login.gif"></td>
                        </tr>
                </table>
        </div>
        </form> 
        <!-- login form ends -->
</div>

This is a snippet of what is returning when I send a Http request from a small Java application, but I want to be able to see the actually html page visible when the user is logged in... Any ideas how I would go about authenticating the connection with my username/password pair?

Any and all advice welcome!
Thanks

techguy

Have you tried something like Firebug to inspect what exactly is going on?

You need to find out the URL that the form is posting to and all the data it's sending.

Then reconstruct that within Java. You might also want to look into using cookies in Java.

FireHydrant

Sweet, thanks!

Any guidance is better than no guidance...

selfdiy

I think the apache project commons-http if your not using it already will have some convenience methods that would be useful for this. I think they may also have some examples of programmatically logging in through java.

Signpost

download fiddler and you can inspect all the traffic which should give you an easier idea of what is actually happening under the covers