Connect to site through https - java

I have some application that should connect to https Site, and receive some.
With connection all is ok, but when i what getInputStream() comes Exception:
java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL:
Here is the part of code:
String query = siteURL.toExternalForm();
URL queryURL = new URL(query);
String data = "username="+login+"&password="+password;
URLConnection connection = queryURL.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(connection
.getOutputStream());
writer.write(data);
writer.flush();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));

Looks like you're not allowed to do what you're trying to do, you're getting an HTTP 403: Forbidden.
Can you open the same URL in your browser?

I think the site have a custom authentication mechanism, in wich you have to supply our username and password as GET parameters. So your url should look like this:
URL url = new URL("http://somesite.org/page?username=<username>&password=password");
... = url.openConnection();
...
If you use url.openConnection, a HTTP GET request is done. If you want to send data with a request, you must use a HTTP POST request. In this case, you can use a third party library, like Apache Commons HttpClient.
BTW: why are u creating a new URL object, if you already have one?

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is it possible to know if the url is redirecting

I'm developing in java an application which verifies if one site is online.
I get the http response by:
URL url = new URL("http://www.example.com");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
But when I access the URL it is redirecting and the HTTP response is always 301. I want to get the new URL that the site was redirected. Is it possible?
You can access to the header using this :
String redirectUrl = connection.getHeaderField("Location");
The target of the redirection is in the HTTP Header of the response, look for the "Location" header.

send http request from IIS to GCM using java

I am trying to send Json message from my [java application server] to [GCM]:
the java server app located on IIS server (Windows server 2008 R2).
here is my function:
public static String post(String apiKey, String json){
try{
URL url = new URL("https://android.googleapis.com/gcm/send");
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type:", "application/json");
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization:", "key="+apiKey); // apiKey is valid browser apiKey.
conn.setDoOutput(true);
DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.writeUTF(json);
wr.flush();
wr.close();
/*I've deleted the respond check from the question*/
}
but I fail to send!, and does not get any message or exception.
I think that the server itself doesnt let me send http requests!
is this true? how to solve?
I recommend using the Sender and Message objects instead. The sample GCM server code uses those. Sample server code can be seen here.
If you really insist on handling the connection yourself, you can look at the underlying HttpURLConnection implementation of the Sender object here.
It does appear that there are certain differences between the Sender code and your request properties. Hope this helps.

Java native browser login prompt

I am trying to make a HTTPS call using Java to a browser that uses the native login prompt.
http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2008/08/25/using-the-browsers-native-login-prompt/
Currently I'm using the below for HTTP and it works fine for other websites since I know the parameters to put in...however it fails for the above type of login (I am not sure how to capture the parameters...it's a login pop up..or if this is even the correct approach)....any ideas??..thanks
HttpUtility.sendPostRequest(requestURL, params);
String[] response = HttpUtility.readMultipleLinesRespone();
The server should respond to your first request with a WWW-Authenticate header and a status of 401. The header will contain details of the kind of authentication it's expecting.
Then you can try again after adding an Authorization header to your request in the correct format.
#alex: OK...I managed to make the HTTPS connection following your suggestion with this:
URL url = new URL("https://www.example.com/Login");
URLConnection urlConnection = url.openConnection();
urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + authString);
InputStream is = urlConnection.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
//then I read the input stream..
But when I tried to make another connection (say go to a different page after login) with this code in another method...taking URLConnection as the parameter:
//Below is in a method called account(URLConnection urlConnection)
URL url = new URL("https://www.example.com/account.aspx");
urlConnection = url.openConnection();
InputStream is = urlConnection.getInputStream();
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
//again I read the input stream..
...it throws the below exception...same exception before logging in..how can I rectify?
Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL: https://www.example.com/account.aspx
You have probably moved on from this problem, but I recently had an issue that involved achieving functionality similar to the browser's native login prompt. I have solved it and written a post about it. Steven Sanderson's post was helpful for me too, in helping me understand certain concepts.
http://captaindanko.blogspot.com.au/2015/04/how-does-browsers-native-login-prompt.html

How to send POST request with cookie on a remote server using java

I need to get data from a Web page and for that i need to keep session alive(i think so),So when i enter username password through browser to website ,i run my code,which takes cookies from my browser and sends post request with cookies attached to the page who's data i want to get
You can use HttpURLConnection class provided by java. Do somethink like this:-
URL url = new URL("You URL");
HttpURLConnection hCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
hCon.setDoOutput(true);
hCon.setRequestMethod("POST");
hcon.setRequestProperty("Cookie", myCookie);
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(
hpCon.getOutputStream());
out.close()
and than try to read the response.
You can also give a look into Apache HttpClient

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL

I want to download the mp3 file from url : "http://upload13.music.qzone.soso.com/30671794.mp3", i always got java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL. But it's ok when open the url using browser. Below is part of my code:
BufferedInputStream bis = null;
BufferedOutputStream bos = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(link);
URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection();
urlConn.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
String contentType = urlConn.getContentType();
System.out.println("contentType:" + contentType);
InputStream is = urlConn.getInputStream();
bis = new BufferedInputStream(is, 4 * 1024);
bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(
fileName.toString()));​
Anyone could help me? Thanks in advance!
You can also use
System.setProperty("http.agent", "Chrome");
it worked for me.
//Update
Explanation
Because HttpURLConnection reads the property "http.agent" if set.
You can read it here: https://www.innovation.ch/java/HTTPClient/advanced_info.html
Or you can look it up in the source code of the HttpURLConnection Class:
String agent = java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(new sun.security.action.GetPropertyAction("http.agent"));
Instead of using URLConnection in java, if you use HttpURLConnection you should beable to access the requested web page from java. Try the following code:
HttpURLConnection httpcon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpcon.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.76");
Normal java using urlConnection wont be accepted to access the internet. To access the browser it will need to perform a search without theexception HTTP response code : 403 for URL
EDIT (#Mordechai): No need to do the casting, just add the user agent.
When I access the URL with my browser I also get 403. Perhaps you're logged in to the site with your browser?
If that's the case you need to duplicate the cookie from your browser and send it along, perhaps even do more to replicate your browser's signature if the site does any extra checks.
You can set the cookie by adding:
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", "foo=bar");
Where foo=bar is the key-value pair you'll find when you locate the site's cookie in your browser.
The problem is given by the Status code. 403 means actually "Forbidden" and implies The request was denied for a reason the server does not want to (or has no means to) indicate to the client.
the problem lies at the server-side.
I would also check if the server were the resource is located has an ACL or similar in place, we just resolved a "java.io.IOException: 403" issue this way.
It happens that 403 errors are very generic and you cannot really be sure of the source as it can be just anything.

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