Hi Paul,
I removed the below line from the Apache HTTP Client code and it still
works. So, it looks like auth in not enabled on the CGI script.
filePost.setDoAuthentication(true);
Unfortunately, I do not have access to the server side.
Thanks,
Arul
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_sun.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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