Programatically login to website and download file

Saturday, May 20, AM. What about selecting a checkbox next to the file I want to download and then clicking the form's submit button in order to download that file? What should the request look like for that? Also, since this would be a file download request, wouldn't reading the page content of the response be inappropriate since I am not requesting a new page but rather a file to download. Hello Like the above login, I want my application to register in a website.

Is there anyway that can help me? I have no idea how to start with. Any suggestion is highly appreciated Thanx in Advance. Wednesday, April 2, AM. Saturday, May 24, AM. Stuck Somewhere Back in TIme. Thursday, June 5, PM. Hi, I'm, also struggling with with use of the WebRequest class. Monday, October 13, PM. Hi everyone, I've been writing something similar: my application needs to go to a site eg: www. They're both written in php, so is it possible to do the same in my situation???

Saturday, October 25, PM. Thanks Shakalama Ulf Dittmer. If you can please share the idea in details. HttpClient" class from jar after decompling it.. Well will need to use commons-logging. How "commons-logging. HttpClient is open source - if for some reason you want to check its source code you can just download it; no need to decompile.

I'm guessing what you need are the javadocs and the tutorials, though, both of which are are on the HttpClient web site.

If you're not yet familiar with that site I suggest you spend some time looking what's available - it has some very useful and popular libraries! I don't get any exception after adding thos jar files.

Well to download once again using your web browser login to the site. And upon the page where hyperlink to download the file is show stop there. No right click on hyperlink and click copy link location as it appears in my firefox and paste it into notepad. Now, in java program make a new HttpClient instance and call client. We are trying to automate download process. Plan is to handle login part with code and directly show list of filename to User with check box , so User can select files and click to save.

Rest all will be handled programtically. Once download is complete the status for that file will change to "Saved" or "Download Complete. I'm working on Window 7, VS C asp. Trying to make it work with WebClient class. It'll be great if you can post some source code or guide me to link or post for solution. Thanks Daud for quick response. Add your solution here. OK Paste as. Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML. Existing Members Sign in to your account.

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