Using Java to Login to an HTTPS Website (Yahoo)

[Parth Sagdeo]

I'm interested in making a program to log into yahoo.com and check my various stock portfolios. I already know how to access static web pages in Java, but this poses a unique challenge because it requires cookies and it uses SSH authentication (the https protocol). Does anyone have any tips on how I can get this to work, or know any helpful resources? I believe YPOPs (YPOPs does something similar (log in to Yahoo programatically), but their forums are pretty much dead. My biggest question right now is how I might accept cookies in Java so I can move around yahoo in a logged in state. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Parth

[A Kumar]

i heard something about watij / httpunit...but these are basically used for functioanl web testing

[Jesper de Jong]

Are you using the networking classes in the standard Java API? They work but are not so sophisticated and doing things like HTTPS and cookies can be difficult or isn't even possible with the standard API classes.

Have a look at Jakarta Commons HttpClient, which is a library that makes working with HTTP and HTTPS a lot easier. This library can also handle cookies for you.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Please do not post the same question to multiple forums. Now you have answers here and here, and peoples time and effort to help you is being duplicated and thus wasted: CarefullyChooseOneForum