Question

I am tasked with writing an authentication component for an open source JAVA app. We have an in-house authentication widget that uses https. I have some example php code that accesses the widget which uses cURL to handle the transfer.

My question is whether or not there is a port of cURL to JAVA, or better yet, what base package will get me close enough to handle the task?

Update:

This is in a nutshell, the code I would like to replicate in JAVA:

$cp = curl_init(); $my_url = 'https://' . AUTH_SERVER . '/auth/authenticate.asp?pt1=$uname&pt2=$pass&pt4=full'; curl_setopt($cp, CURLOPT_URL, $my_url); curl_setopt($cp, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $result = curl_exec($cp); curl_close($cp); 

Heath, I think you’re on the right track, I think I’m going to end up using HttpsURLConnection and then picking out what I need from the response.

Answer 1

Exception handling omitted:

HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) new URL('https://www.example.com').openConnection(); con.setRequestMethod('POST'); con.getOutputStream().write('LOGIN'.getBytes('UTF-8')); con.getInputStream();