Re: silent post?

wallace neikirk wrote:

Hi Wallace!

Maybe it's just the "action=logoff" in the URL?



> can anyone out there provide some insight???
>
> we have a home grown portal for our faculty & staff.
> we'd like to integrate ( in a simple way ) crystal enterprise reporting.
>
> in a simple way means ...
> * provide a link to crystal enterprise in one of our channels,
> * when clicked, we do a "silent post" to crystal with their
> userid/password,
> * then forward their ePortfolio page to a new browser window.
>
> this provides a seamless link from our portal to their set of reports :)
>
> the code i'm using is shown below, but it doesn't seem to do the trick.
> when i make the request, crystal redirects me back to its logon page :(
>

>
>     URL url;
>     URLConnection urlConn;
>     DataOutputStream    printout;
>     DataInputStream     input;
>
>     url = new
> URL("http://crystal.wright.edu/crystal/enterprise9/ePortfolio/en/logon.csp?action=logoff");


>
>     urlConn = url.openConnection();
>     urlConn.setDoInput (true);
>     urlConn.setDoOutput (true);
>     urlConn.setUseCaches (false);
>     urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
> "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
>
>     printout = new DataOutputStream (urlConn.getOutputStream ());
>     String content =
>      "usr="    + URLEncoder.encode(userId) +
>      "&pwd="   + URLEncoder.encode(passWd) +
>      "&aut="   + URLEncoder.encode("secEnterprise");
>     printout.writeBytes (content);
>     printout.flush ();
>     printout.close ();
>
>     ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
>     response.setContentType("text/html");
>
>     input = new DataInputStream (urlConn.getInputStream ());
>     String str;
>     while (null != ((str = input.readLine()))) {
>      out.println(str1);
>     }
>     input.close ();
>
>     out.flush();
>     out.close();

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