[HtmlUnit] Re: followredirects disabled problem

[John L. <joh...@ca...>]

An additional issue issue.

I am doing a form-based login where the web page is constructed as follows:

<form NAME="j_security_check" ACTION="j_security_check" METHOD="POST">
...
<input type="text" value="value1" name="j_username" />
...
<input type="password" value="value2" name="j_password" size="10" 
maxlength="15" />
...
<input TYPE=submit NAME="login" VALUE="Login">
</form>

[ Note, I am initializing the login and password inputs to a VALID set 
of values. ]

The underlying JSP code invokes a second page via the Login post along 
these lines:

response.sendRedirect("j_security_check?j_username="+login+"&j_password="+pass);

I press the Login button and it brings me to the second page (because it 
is successful). The server log is as follows:

192.168.1.15 - value1 [14/Mar/2003:16:16:50 +0000] "POST 
/order/j_security_check HTTP/1.1" 302 0 
"http://john.candata.com/order/Login.jsp;jsessionid=5ifh899gfnnb0" 
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826"

When I do the same thing via HtmlUnit, for some reason, it is not 
passing in the login and password values. It passes all the assertion 
tests except the final one indicating a successful login to the second 
page. It is a login failure, and I am returned back to the original page.

final HtmlForm form = page1.getFormByName("j_security_check");
final HtmlSubmitInput button = 
(HtmlSubmitInput)form.getInputByName("login");
final HtmlTextInput textField = 
(HtmlTextInput)form.getInputByName("j_username");
final HtmlPasswordInput pwdField = 
(HtmlPasswordInput)form.getInputByName("j_password");
assertEquals("value1, textField.getValueAttribute());
assertEquals("value2", pwdField.getValueAttribute());
final HtmlPage page2 = (HtmlPage)button.click();
assertEquals("Second Page", page2.getTitleText());

The server log does not indicate the value of the Login input, as it 
does when I manually log in.

192.168.1.15 - - [14/Mar/2003:16:20:17 +0000] "POST 
/order/j_security_check HTTP/1.1" 302 0 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; 
MSIE 6.0b; Windows 98)"

I thought maybe Java.net.authenticator - setting Login and Password - 
might solve the problem, but the effect was the same. The login failed 
and I did not reach second page.

webClient.setCredentialProvider(new SimpleCredentialProvider ("value1", 
"value2"));

Hints?