[ale] OT: Java and Cookies

[Christopher Fowler]

Here is the screen shot of the applet running in 
appletviewer

http://66.23.198.2/shot.png

If the device was connected to a Winbloze machine you'll see
a windows screen instead of the Linux screen


On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:59:11PM -0400, Jason Day wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:21:18PM -0500, Denny Chambers wrote:
> > I am having my own problem, that maybe you can help with. I send a POST 
> > request to a URL with HttpURLConnection. tha URL sends back a 302 
> > Redirect. The problem happens when the HttpURLConnection goes to follow 
> > the redirect, it changes the request to a GET, and I loose the data that 
> > I was passing. Any clue on getting around this, before I start hacking 
> > it up and handling the redirect myself? Does this sound like a bug, or 
> > is this just the way redirects work? Sounds like a bug to me?
> 
> In my experience, the HttpClient class (which is what HttpURLConnection
> uses by default) cannot follow redirects reliably.  I ended up coding
> the redirect handling stuff myself, which really wasn't that hard.  You
> just have to remember to set followRedirects to false.  Most of my work
> was with JDK 1.3.1_02, so this may be fixed in later versions.  Even in
> later versions, though, I think it still always does a GET for the
> redirect.
> 
> Also, the getResponseCode() method is broken in versions prior to
> 1.3.1_04.  I don't remember the exact details, but I had to write my own
> getResponseCode method too.
> 
> And, if you ever need to support SSL, JSSE unfortunately includes all
> the bugs in pre 1.3.1_04 versions of the JDK.  Yay.
> 
> Jason
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