Question

I am attempting to help a student write an android app that will contact a specific webserver. From the looks of the website, you can issue a GET requestion with your web browser and you get back a cookie session and an “authenticity token” (see the source of the page as an invisible input)

We issue a GET request and then want to follow it up with the post, but we are receiving a status code of 404 on the post. On a side note, the first GET request returns a code of 200.

Does anyone have any ideas? Below is the code that gets executed…

public void run()
    {
        HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("https://co22.herokuapp.com/login/");
        HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("https://co22.herokuapp.com/login/sessions");
        HttpResponse response;

        try
        {
            response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);


            Log.d("matt",response.getStatusLine().toString());


            List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(2);
            nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("session[network_id]", username));
            nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("session[password]", password));
            nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("authenticity_token","9yvxPOUpRFdsTeHAZtISEfBHpElDTHzvMjAbQnxOHDM="));
            httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));


            response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);
            Log.d("matt",response.getStatusLine().toString());

        } 
        catch (ClientProtocolException e)
        {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } 
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }


    }

Answer 1

It appears that the above will work correctly, but we were just sending the second post request to the wrong website.