From: Andi Scharfstein <ascalvin8@...>
Date: 2003-10-03T01:27:00+09:00
Subject: Re: http-access2 POSTing

Hi,
"NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@sarion.co.jp> wrote in
news:00dc01c388f6$8f5376d0$04e6a8c0@sarion.co.jp: 

>> (http://www.myskoda.de)
> 
> I know nothing about this site but if the site use HTTP-Cookies,
> 
>   client.set_cookie_store("cookie.dat")
> 
> before
> 
>> After logging in [client.get('http://www.myskoda.de/index.html', 
>> {"callname" => "mylogin", "password" => "mypass"})]
> 
> and
> 
>> client.post('http://www.myskoda.de/emailsys/sms/sms.html', {"network"
>> => "151", "number" => "12345678", "msg" => text})
> 
> might help.

Thanks for your input. I toyed around with that a bit and found out the 
following:
client.set_cookie_store("cookie.dat") before logging on allows me to 
authenticate at the server, making it a successful login. Leaving it out 
leads to an error page ("Could not log in, please turn on cookies").
As I had that line in the script before, that doesn't change anything. 
Sorry again I didn't mention it.
I tried inserting this line before the "Send SMS" request, which changes 
the script's behaviour: The site now thinks that I have not logged on and 
prompts me to do so (the error page I talked about in my other post). So, 
I deleted it again.
Then, I tried changing the client.get to client.post and vice versa. This 
proved more interesting:
When trying to provide login data via client.post (i.e. client.post
('http://www.myskoda.de/index.html', 
>> {"callname" => "mylogin", "password" => "mypass"}), the server didn't 
accept the login anymore. That is, I got the same message as before 
("Could not log in"). So, something must be wrong with the POST method I 
use to access the site.
I also tried changing the other POST request (Send SMS) to a GET, but 
sadly, this didn't work... in both cases, all I get is a 200 OK and the 
site loads as if I hadn't posted any data at all (except the login data 
from the cookie, which obviously is still there). The errors and a 
successful login are both handled by a 302 redirect (which I don't have 
to follow, as I know the URLs I want to access).
So, are there any ideas on how to do the POST request differently so it 
might work?

-- 
Thx: Andi S.