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Can't simulate Postman request in Java

I'm trying to login to a portal. It works using Postman. When I try the same request using plain Java or OkHttp the login fails and I will be redirected to the login page.
HttpUrl.Builder httpBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://test58.cashctrl.com/auth/login.html").newBuilder();
httpBuilder.addQueryParameter("JMCF_AUTH_EMAIL", "email");
httpBuilder.addQueryParameter("JMCF_AUTH_PASSWORD", "password");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
.url(httpBuilder.build())
.get()
.build();
I know the Url looks weird but it works this way using Postman or even simply use a browser.
Alternative with plain Java, which I tried:
Map<String, String> parameters = new HashMap<>();
parameters.put(PARAM_EMAIL, EMAIL);
parameters.put(PARAM_PASSWORD, PASSWORD);
URL url = new URL(LOGIN_URL + "?" + ParameterStringBuilder.getParamsString(parameters));
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
con.setDoOutput(true);
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(con.getOutputStream());
out.writeBytes(ParameterStringBuilder.getParamsString(parameters));
out.flush();
out.close();
int status = con.getResponseCode();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
StringBuffer content = new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
content.append(inputLine + "\n");
}
in.close();
con.disconnect();
System.out.println(status);
System.out.println(content.toString());
Postman must be doing something special or also a browser which I don't see.

I had the same issue, I got to know that Postman has "code" feature. Below the send button you can see the code option it will generate the code for you. There is a list of language to choose from and java is one of them. Do check that out. Also you must be missing the cookie, see the temporary headers in Postman add all in your code and do include the cookie one.
Thanks I hope it helps.

Java Http request PUT : 401 unauthorized

I'm trying to send a PUT request from a Java app to a server. I successfully send GET, POST and DELETE requests but the PUT one won't succeed (I'm getting a 401 Error with the code below, 405 Error with an other code using the HttpPut of the apache package).
I'm using java.net.HttpURLConnection, here is a small region of my code :
URL obj = new URL(urlPost);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
//add request header
con.setRequestMethod(typeRequest); //typeRequest = PUT
String credentials = adminOC + ":" + pwdOC;
String encoding = Base64.encode(credentials.getBytes("UTF-8"));
con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", String.format("Basic %s", encoding));
if (!typeRequest.equals("GET")){
con.setDoOutput(true);
try (DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(con.getOutputStream())) {
wr.writeBytes(postParam);
wr.flush();
}
}
if (con.getResponseCode() == 200){
try (BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()))) {
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
response += inputLine;
}
}
}
I tried sending my PUT parameters the "POST" way and also directly in the URL.
It seems to be an error from my Java code and not from the server because I tried to do the PUT request with cURL and it worked.
Thanks for reading, I hope you will be able to give me some hints to debug the problem.

What is missing in your code is con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")

How do I send a cookie while trying to grab a sites source?

I am trying to grab a site's source code using this code
private static String getUrlSource(String url) throws IOException {
URL url = new URL(url);
URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
urlConn.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));
String inputLine;
StringBuilder a = new StringBuilder();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
a.append(inputLine);
in.close();
return a.toString();
}
When I do grab the site code this way I get an error about needing to allow cookies. Is there anyway to allow cookies in a java application just so I can grab some source code? I do have the cookie my browser uses to log me in if that helps.
Thanks
John

This way you would have to deal with raw request data, Go with apache http client that gives you abstraction and some methods to allow to set headers in request

405 - method not allowed calling web service from struts

I have a data access object which calls a web service. In my browser I can hit the web service using a url and it is successful.
http://mycompany:9080/ReportingManager/service/repManHealth/importHistoryTrafficLightStatus.json
But when try to execute the code below in my data access object I get a 405 error saying method not allowed.
String requestURI = "http://mycompany:9080/ReportingManager/service/repManHealth/importHistoryTrafficLightStatus.json";
URL url = new URL(requestURI);
HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpCon.setDoOutput(true);
httpCon.setRequestMethod("GET");
httpCon.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(
httpCon.getOutputStream());
int responseCode = httpCon.getResponseCode();
String responseMessage = httpCon.getResponseMessage();
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(httpCon.getInputStream()));
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
String line = null;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
}
rd.close();
String jsonResponse = sb.toString();
out.close();
httpCon.disconnect();
Can someone help me with what might be wrong here?
Also maybe there is a better way to execute a web service to an external application and read the response using struts? Or do people think this method is okay?
thanks

If u are using GET method. Try the below code.
string url = String.Format("http://somedomain.com/samplerequest?greeting={0}",param);
WebClient serviceRequest = new WebClient();
serviceRequest.Headers[HttpRequestHeader.ContentType] = "application/json";
string response = serviceRequest.DownloadString(new Uri(url));

Thanks for your ideas however non of them were quite right. I fixed the 405 using the code below...
String requestURI = "http://myserver:9080/ReportingManager/service/repManHealth/importHistoryTrafficLightStatus.json";
URL url = new URL(requestURI);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
InputStream in = conn.getInputStream();
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
String line = null;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
}
rd.close();

By calling httpCon.getOutputStream()); you're not sending a HTTP GET anymore, but a HTTP POST.
Note: This is under the assumption you end up getting the implementation provided by Sun. Which will change GET to POST for backwards compatibility.

How to get the Response Back from the Remote Server using an HttpURLConnection Object?

I am trying to send an HTTP POST Request to a remote server using an instance of the HttpURLConnection class. Although, I am able to get a response code and a response message, when I try to write the input stream into a StringBuffer, I am not able to actually read any lines.
When I analyzed the packets sent from WireShark, I noticed that a full response was being sent from the remote server. My only guess as to why I am not able to see it in the Java program is because the time in which I try to read from the InputStream is too late.
So, how do I read the immediate, full response from the remote server using my HttpURLConnection object? Below is the code that I am using:
HttpURLConnection conn = null;
String urlStr = "...";
URL url = null;
try
{
url = new URL(urlStr);
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setDoInput(true);
conn.setDoOutput(true);
...
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
String line;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null)
{
sb.append(line);
}
rd.close();
...
}...

Okay, never mind. It turns out that what I was looking for was in the HTTP Respone's header. So, I got what I needed by looking through its headers. ::Face Palm::