Re: 302 Redirection Headaches -- WEB400

They're most likely using frames... so what you need to do
is view the source for the page with the input fields on
it, and do a POST to the path specified in the form on the
action tag sending along the appropriate data fields
(hidden or not).  I doubt you'd use the API or any other
tool to go to a root domain.

After "logging in" many times you will be returned either a
cookie or a session ID.  That needs to be saved and sent in
the header of any subsequent request so it thinks you're
still "logged on".  Sometimes apps can be picky as to how
te headers with cookie/session data are returned, so it
will take some time.

I've helped many customers in similar scenarios do this
exact same thing with my GETURI application.  Some use
cookies, some use session IDs.  Either have to be parsed
from the returned header for later use in following
requests.

Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com


Brad

On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:45:49 -0500
 daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> I'm trying to adapt Scott Klement's HTTPAPI code to send
> a file to our
> bank.  The digital certificate hurdle has been jumped but
> now I'm facing a
> seemingly endless 302 redirect problem.  Ultimately I
> want to use Scott's
> http_url_post() routine to fill in a box with a file name
> but have been
> playing with the http_url_get() to try to resolve the
> redirection problem
> so I can get to that point.
> 
> The scenario goes like this:
> When I connect to http://www.bank.com/ it returns a 302
> redirecting me to
> http://www.bank.com/a.  When I connect to
> http://www.bank.com/a it returns
> a 302 redirecting me to http://www.bank.com/b.  When I
> connect to that it
> gives me a 302 that sends me back to
> http://www.bank.com/.  Argh!!!!  How
> do I debug this?  I've looked at the files in /tmp but
> nothing has jumped
> out at me.
> 
> >From a browser perspective I connect to
> http://www.bank.com, click the
> login/logout button, and am taken to the page that I want
> to get to however
> the address in the browser's address box doesn't change.
>  How can I tell
> where my browser is pointed other than the address bar
> and viewing the
> source of the initial page?  Any thoughts?
> 
> Dave Parnin
> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN  46571
> daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> HTML Source for first page:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>Logged In</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <CENTER><A HREF="/"
> onMouseOver="window.status='Continue';return true"><IMG
> SRC="/icons/stlogo.gif" BORDER=0
> ALT="Continue"></A></CENTER>
> <BR>
> <HTML><P>
> WARNING!  You have accessed a private computer system...
> blah, blah,
> blah...
> </P></HTML>
> <BR>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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BVS.Tools
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