[Httpunit-develop] Form-based authentication using HTTPUnit and J2SDKEE 1.2.1

[Jon I. <jon...@bc...>]

Hi,

I'm new to this list, I have had a quick browse through the archived
postings, so I hope I'm not raising old issues...

I've been loking at using HTTPUnit and JUnit to build a test suite for a
J2EE application I'm building. At the moment I'm using the J2SDKEE 1.2.1
J2EE reference implementation from Sun to test the application as it is
developed. The headers returned from this app server reveal that Tomcat is
being used to provide the web server, servlets, JSP etc.

Servlet-Engine: Tomcat Web Server/3.0 (JSP 1.1; Servlet 2.2; Java 1.3.0_02;
Windows 2000 5.0 x86; java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.)

Using HTTPUnit 1.2.6 form-based authentication fails with an HTTP state of
405. After examining the headers produced by IE 5.5 and by HTTPUnit, I
located the problem in the following bit of code...

PostMethodWebRequest.java:160

    String getContentType() {
        return "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=" +
getReques().getCharacterSet();
    }

Removing the charset=... part of the header to match what IE 5.5 produces
fixes the problem, allowing form-based authentication to work correcly. The
modified code is...

    String getContentType() {
        return "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
    }

I'm not familiar with the HTTP standards so I can't make a judgement on what
is and is not correct for this header. Any comments?

Cheers!

Jon