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.
Exception handling omitted:
ReplyDeleteHttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) new URL("https://www.example.com").openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.getOutputStream().write("LOGIN".getBytes("UTF-8"));
con.getInputStream();
I'd use the Commons Http Client. There is a contrib class in the project that allows you to use ssl.
ReplyDeleteWe're using it and it's working well.
Edit: Here's the SSL Guide
Try Apache Commons Net for network protocols. Free!
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