The program does a http post with basic authorization just fine but when the post is complete the page is redirected to a success page. The redirect failes due to 401 authorization failed.
final URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "basic " +base64);
wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(data);
wr.flush();
rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
The line
rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
fails due to 401 authorization failed...
I have also tried adding
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "basic " +base64);
after
wr.flush();
I get the error of "Already connected". Evidently the authorization that I set doesn't follow over to the redirect. Any solutions to this problem is greatly appreciated.
You have 2 options you can try:
- Use the
setDefaultRequestProperty
(see http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/URLConnection.html#setDefaultRequestProperty%28java.lang.String,%20java.lang.String%29) method to set the Authorization header.
- Disable automatic redirect following: http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html#setInstanceFollowRedirects%28boolean%29 and do it manually.
Here is the working solution for anyone else who has this problem. Thanks again to Femi for providing a workaround idea.
URL url = new URL(page);
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
conn.setInstanceFollowRedirects(false);
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "basic " +base64);
wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(data);
wr.flush();
if(conn.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_MOVED_TEMP){
url = new URL(conn.getHeaderField("Location"));
conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "basic " +base64);
}
rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));