automatic login with java

[tatu rodriguez]

Hi I want to crawl a webpage that requieres an id username and password.
I've got the user and password and I want to know how can I create a java program to crawl these pages automatically

[Sharad Agarwal]

What kind of authentication is the server using?

[tatu rodriguez]

Hello

It is about a form-based authentication in a JSP page.

I've got a crawler that can save pages but I also want to save those homepages which need to be filled with a user name and password

Could you tell me how I can make an automated login?

[Sharad Agarwal]

If it is form-based authentication, all you need to do is figure out the parameters for the username and password (from 'view source') and make a request (GET or POST, whatever is more appropriate) with values for those parameters.