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Redirecting to new page after loging using HttpsURLConnection

I have following task:
1. login to yahoo
2. after successful login go to finance.yahoo.com
3. parse some information e.g. stock quote
4. I want to repeat operation each 5 minutes to get the same , refreshed page, so do I have to re-establish connection or reuse existing one with refresh mechanizm ?

I was able to finish 1. connect but result looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">

</script>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=http://finance.yahoo.com">
</head>
<body>
If you are seeing this page, your browser settings prevent you
from automatically redirecting to a new URL.
<p>
Please <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com">click here</a> to continue.
</body>
</html>

so it looks, after login i am not redirecting but in my code
I am using HttpsURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(true);
so It shoud work. My guess is , that javscript is not executed.

thanks in advance for any help

Lez

hoomanv

not sure but use
window.location="http://finance.yahoo.com";
instead

hoomanv

setFollowRedirects() should be invoked before url.openConnection() otherwise it wont work then you have to call setInstanceFollowRedirects()

hoomanv

man, dont you think that HttpUrlConnection doesn't parse the html content and it cant understand javascript ? you need to do it manualy

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