Android: log into website and preserve session/cookie using DefaultHttpClient

Question

I\'ve been through different tutorials and this website, but couldn\'t find a proper solution. On the other hand, I\'ve seen apps logging into websites and requesting further in

Answer 1

You have to make DefaultHttpClient httpclient with singleton pattern so sessioncookie that you have still hold session from login.

This is the Mainactivity class :

public static DefaultHttpClient httpClient;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    RequestPage request = new RequestPage();
    request.post("http://www.example.com/login.php");

    RequestPage requestProfile =new RequestPage();
    requestProfile.post("http://www.example.com/profile.php");
}

and this is the RequestPage class:

private InputStream post(String url){
    String paramUsername = "username";
    String paramPassword = "pass";

    if(MainActivity.httpClient==null){
        MainActivity.httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    }
    DefaultHttpClient httpClient = MainActivity.httpClient;

    // In a POST request, we don't pass the values in the URL.
    //Therefore we use only the web page URL as the parameter of the HttpPost argument
    HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);

            // Because we are not passing values over the URL, we should have a mechanism to pass the values that can be
    //uniquely separate by the other end.
    //To achieve that we use BasicNameValuePair             
    //Things we need to pass with the POST request
    BasicNameValuePair usernameBasicNameValuePair = new BasicNameValuePair("username", paramUsername);
    BasicNameValuePair passwordBasicNameValuePAir = new BasicNameValuePair("password", paramPassword);

    // We add the content that we want to pass with the POST request to as name-value pairs
    //Now we put those sending details to an ArrayList with type safe of NameValuePair
    List nameValuePairList = new ArrayList();
    nameValuePairList.add(usernameBasicNameValuePair);
    nameValuePairList.add(passwordBasicNameValuePAir);

    try {
        // UrlEncodedFormEntity is an entity composed of a list of url-encoded pairs. 
        //This is typically useful while sending an HTTP POST request. 
        UrlEncodedFormEntity urlEncodedFormEntity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairList);

        // setEntity() hands the entity (here it is urlEncodedFormEntity) to the request.
        httpPost.setEntity(urlEncodedFormEntity);

        try {
            // HttpResponse is an interface just like HttpPost.
            //Therefore we can't initialize them
            HttpResponse httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);

            // According to the JAVA API, InputStream constructor do nothing. 
            //So we can't initialize InputStream although it is not an interface


            return httpResponse.getEntity().getContent();

        } catch (ClientProtocolException cpe) {
            System.out.println("First Exception caz of HttpResponese :" + cpe);
            cpe.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println("Second Exception caz of HttpResponse :" + ioe);
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }

    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
        System.out.println("An Exception given because of UrlEncodedFormEntity argument :" + uee);
        uee.printStackTrace();
    }

    return null;
}