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"Email Login" App: POST Forms, & Client Cookies for (Hotmail/Yahoo mail etc)

 
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Hello
I've been working on the above to automate "Email Login" for both a Java application and Applet.
If anyone is working on this too and interested in collaborating or has final code they are willing to share this would be most helpful.
Just to explain the background. POST form info is sent to a mail server such as Yahoo or Hotmail and cookies are collected which are later sent back to the server to download individual mail messages.
Some of the tricky issues I have encountered are not being able to communicate via URL using HTTPS (SSL) in JBuilder 3. This had meant I am unable to use JB3 to login into Hotmail. I am about to try this on VC and JB4.
The other problem is not being able to handle "redirects" to allow collection of all the cookies that will be needed to be passed back to the server.
On the Applet side Netscape appears to be taking care of the cookies issue. However I then must Sign the applet to enable it to save individual email messages to local hard disk. I have been unsuccessful so far is completing this step.
I have been hampered by the fact that some code I was using involved swing and other areas that aren't supported in Netscape 4.6 without a plug-in. Additionally JB3 has no support for debugging Applets, unbelievable!
I have searched many forums and this is one of the single most
frequently asked questions. But there is no definitive code out there.
Anyway here I am waffling on. If anyone is interested in collaborating please let me know you can reply directly to the email address below.
thanks
john_riche@hotmail.com

 
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John, Please don't double post. Pick the forum that best suits your problem and post to it alone. If a Moderator determines it'll will best be answered in another forum, we will ensure that it gets there. See my response to this in IO and Streams.
Thank You
 
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