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POST from HttpsURLConnection

I am trying to create web client for form-based logging .
here is the piece of code I am using.
All values I am getting by parsing start up form.
When looking at Post request in IEWatch one line is different:
(Method-Line) POST /c/a/WirelessLogIn HTTP/1.1
I am using just connection.setRequestMethod("POST"); without any parameters
I am not sure if this makes any difference.

Here is what I am posting:
String body ="USERID="+v_account+"&PASSWORD="+v_pin
+"&login=Login&pagehandler=PHWirelessLogIn&DV_DATA="+v_data+"&USERGROUP=ACCT&COMPANY=ABCD";
url = new URL(t_url+body);
connection = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setUseCaches(false);
connection.setDefaultUseCaches(false);
connection.setFollowRedirects(false);
connection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(false);
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
//connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */*");
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "*/*");
connection.setRequestProperty("Referer", "https://www.abcd.com/c/a/WirelessLogInForm");
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Language" , "en-us");
connection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type" , "application/x-www-form-urlencoded") ;
connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)");
connection.setRequestProperty("Host", "www.abcd.com");
// connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length","120");
connection.setRequestProperty("Connection", "Keep-Alive");
connection.setRequestProperty("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
connection.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookie);
connection.connect();

The response is :

<HTML>
<TITLE>Page Unavailable</TITLE><BODY>
/html/errors/404.html is unavailable, please contact system administractor.
</BODY>
</HTML>

As you can see I've commented out one line // connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length","120");
because with this line the sessin hangs and I am getting no response at all .
How to solve this issue ???
Thx

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Mick Barry

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lez60

ASKER

Yes !!! It works , Thanks !!. I've seen this example before but it looks like not quite got it before. POST and GET is a little bit confusing,
somtimes I was using GET method to login, and it worked, but in this situation it had to bePOST .

Great, I am really approciated

Mick Barry

no worries :)