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• jakarta HttpClient download?

  Posted by Pha. skraeling 518 from on 2008-05-19 06:05:39

  sorry for the tone, but i am really f***ing angry now...

  i need to automatically submit POST data to a website from a java bot (not only for rankk). while this should be a very standard thing to do, i cannot find a good java library for this. one library ( http://www.devx.com/java/Article/17679/0/page/3 ) seems to be rather poorly documented (at least i am not able to understand it), and another one, called HttpClient ( http://www.innovation.ch/java/HTTPClient/ ) does not compile on my eclipse due to some errors - which seem to be related to a type called Enumeration (i have no damn idea what the errors mean, but i can post them if you think it's of any use). this HttpClient is actually an old version of the known Jakarta HttpClient ( http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/ ) which even occured in the "java-insel" ( http://www.galileocomputing.de/openbook/javainsel5/ ; the most famous german java tutorial, though god knows how people actually learn anything from it) with a whole chapter devoted to it - so i figured it is a known enough program not to contain idiot bugs. so i tried to download the newest build... but the download page is broken... cool, isn't it?

  hence i'd like to ask, does anyone have a functioning version of this java client to send to me? just mail to rskraeling [the-usual-sign] gmail.com . i hope it is not considered part of the riddles to write the library for oneself. if someone knows a better library (or a good doc to the first one i mentioned), i'd be delighted too.

  thanks!!

  Last edited on 2008-05-19 06:09:38 by Pha. skraeling

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• jakarta HttpClient download?

  Posted by Geb. deufeufeu 164 on 2008-05-19 14:43:39 Reply

  another way : you can use an external fetcher like curl, it handles very well http (post, proxy, ect...), and it's quite simple to run it.

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• jakarta HttpClient download?

  Posted by Geb. quangntenemy 1252 from on 2008-05-19 20:59:46 Reply

  Why do you need to use a third party library while the official JDK can do it quite well?

  Check out this tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/urls/readingWriting.html

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• jakarta HttpClient download?

  Posted by Geb. Caesum 100 on 2008-05-19 23:40:39 Reply

  All my code is based on Jeff Heatons java bot.

  http://www.jeffheaton.com/java/bot

  It's as simple as using http.send(url, postdata) for post or send(url, null) for get and then http.getBody() on the return

   

  and it supports https as well, which i used to login to one site and make downloads of data from it, scraping the webpages.

  Last edited on 2008-05-19 23:42:17 by Geb. Caesum

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• jakarta HttpClient download?

  Posted by Pha. skraeling 518 from on 2008-05-19 23:51:28 Reply

  thanks to all of you!

  in the meantime i have found this one: http://httpcomponents.apache.org/ . i'll try to run it, at least it seems to be simpler to use than the native JDK methods (thanks, quangntenemy, by the way; didn't know there was a tutorial on that). but importing libraries in eclipse seems to be a pain in the ...

  EDIT: the httpclient download is now working (looks like they have read my bug report, though i posted it in a totally wrong place; or they noticed it on their own). woot, i can POST!!! :P

  Last edited on 2008-05-20 17:48:42 by Pha. skraeling

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