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Steve Schooler

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Registered: Aug, 2004

Handling Redirects Posted: Jul 25, 2006 12:36 PM
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Trying to create java application that will download a file from a website (e.g. www.website1.com). Following excerpt generally works ok.

...
URL u = new URL("http://www.website1.com/filetoget.html")
HttpURLConnection huc = (HttpURLConnection) u.openConnection();
huc.setRequestMethod("GET");
huc.connect();
int code = huc.getResponseCode();
...


Unfortunately, www.website1.com redirects to www.website2.com, so huc.getResponseCode() <above> returns 302 rather than 0. I tried inserting

huc.setRequestProperty("Authorization","Basic myUserID:myPasswd");


but still get 302 rather than 0. How do I supply my UserID/Passwd to handle the redirect?

More generally, I'd like to not have to supply the UserId/Passwd with each GET request. Instead, I want to (somehow) login to website1 or website2 at the start of the app (only). Is this doable?

As a last resort, could I create an applet to download the file. From Firefox, if I login to website1 (thru website2), then any other "tabs" in that Firefox session are "authorized". Any reason why this approach won't work?

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