Hi,
The odd thing is in your Apache HTTP client code you have not
specified any credentials. So are you sure authentication on the CGI
script is enabled?
Can you send the full HTTP request response exchange when using both
clients and any logging information from the CGI script?
Paul.
On Apr 12, 2010, at 5:12 AM, Arul Dhesiaseelan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use Jersey client to do a multipart form submit to a
> CGI script. But, the service returns the HTML form instead of the
> actual response. I have the code which works on Apache HttpClient. I
> am not sure what I am missing here. Can someone help?
>
> POST using Apache HttpClient (this code works):
>
> HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
> PostMethod filePost = new PostMethod("https://test.com/cgi-bin/submit.cgi
> ");
> filePost.setDoAuthentication(true);//process authentication
> challenges authomatically
> File targetFile = new File("customer.bin");
> Part[] parts = { new FilePart("file", targetFile),
> new StringPart("user", "username"),
> new StringPart("password", "password"),
> new StringPart("type", "X32") };
> filePost.setRequestEntity(new MultipartRequestEntity(parts,
> filePost.getParams()));
> filePost.setRequestHeader("Content-type","multipart/form-data");
> int status = client.executeMethod(filePost);
>
> Log output:
>
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:594 MDT [DEBUG] header - >> "POST /cgi-bin/
> submit.cgi HTTP/1.1[\r][\n]"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:595 MDT [DEBUG] HttpMethodBase - Adding Host
> request header
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:620 MDT [DEBUG] header - >> "Content-type:
> multipart/form-data[\r][\n]"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:621 MDT [DEBUG] header - >> "User-Agent: Jakarta
> Commons-HttpClient/3.1[\r][\n]"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:621 MDT [DEBUG] header - >> "Host: test.com[\r]
> [\n]"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:621 MDT [DEBUG] header - >> "Content-Length:
> 117417[\r][\n]"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:621 MDT [DEBUG] header - >> "[\r][\n]"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:622 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "--"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:622 MDT [DEBUG] content - >>
> "giTfSy0R4Zrd7j4lruBwymHkrZRJdNLD5kV4zcM"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:622 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "[\r][\n]"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:622 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "Content-
> Disposition: form-data; name="
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:623 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> """
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:623 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "file"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:623 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> """
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:623 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "; filename="
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:623 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> """
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:623 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "customer.bin"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:623 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> """
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:623 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "[\r][\n]"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:623 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "Content-Type: "
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:623 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "application/octet-
> stream"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:624 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "; charset="
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:624 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "ISO-8859-1"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:624 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "[\r][\n]"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:624 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "Content-Transfer-
> Encoding: "
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:624 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "binary"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:624 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "[\r][\n]"
> 2010/04/11 17:20:21:624 MDT [DEBUG] content - >> "[\r][\n]"
> ...............
>
> POST using Jersey Client (this does not work) :
>
> MultiPart multiPart = new MultiPart();
> WebResource.Builder builder = resource.getRequestBuilder();
> File targetFile = new File("customer.bin");
> FileDataBodyPart fileDataBodyPart = new FileDataBodyPart("file",
> targetFile, MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM_TYPE);
> multiPart.bodyPart(fileDataBodyPart);
> FormDataBodyPart formDataBodyPart = new FormDataBodyPart("user",
> "username);
> multiPart.bodyPart(formDataBodyPart);
> formDataBodyPart = new FormDataBodyPart("password", "password");
> multiPart.bodyPart(formDataBodyPart);
> formDataBodyPart = new FormDataBodyPart("tyoe", "X32");
> multiPart.bodyPart(formDataBodyPart);
> ClientResponse response = builder.type("multipart/form-
> data").post(ClientResponse.class, multiPart);
>
> Log output:
>
> INFO: 1 * Client out-bound request
> 1 > POST https://test.com/cgi-bin/submit.cgi
> 1 > Content-Type: multipart/form-data
> 1 >
>
> --Boundary_1_1839257702_1271040995070
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream
> Content-Disposition: form-data;name="file"
>
> ........
>
> I tried using FormDataMultiPart, but no luck. I am not sure what
> translates to setDoAuthentication() API in Jersey Client.
>
> I also tried something like using the ApacheHttpClient API in Jersey
> Client, but same result:
>
> DefaultApacheHttpClientConfig config = new
> DefaultApacheHttpClientConfig();
> config.getState().setCredentials(null, null, -1, "username",
> "password");
>
> config
> .getProperties
> ().put(ApacheHttpClientConfig.PROPERTY_PREEMPTIVE_AUTHENTICATION,
> true);
>
> ApacheHttpClient client = ApacheHttpClient.create(config);
>
> I must be missing something fundamental here. Appreciate any
> suggestions.
>
> -Arul