WebConversation missing session data

Hello everyone,

I hope this is the correct place to ask this question. I am having trouble logging into a website via httpunit.  The website is maintained / created by me.  Once the login.aspx page authenticates the user, it creates a session variable that holds the user's profile. For some reason I am not being redirected to the default.aspx page after successful authentication.  Here's my code:

WebConversation conversation = new WebConversation();
      	
  HttpUnitOptions.setLoggingHttpHeaders(true);
      	 
  ClientProperties cltprops = conversation.getClientProperties();
         cltprops.setUserAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/HTTPUnit");
         cltprops.setAcceptGzip(false);
         cltprops.setAutoRedirect(true); 
         cltprops.setAcceptCookies(true); 
         cltprops.setAutoRefresh( true );
         
			
  // go to login, successful authentication should redirect to default.aspx
WebRequest index_request = new GetMethodWebRequest("http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx");
WebResponse index_response = conversation.getResponse(index_request);

 WebForm loginForm = index_response.getForms()[0];			

 loginForm.setParameter( "ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtUser", "username" );
 loginForm.setParameter( "ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$txtPass", "password" );
	       
 loginForm.submit(); 


I get the following from debug:

Connecting to helpdesk.jchs.com
Sending:: GET http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 
Sending:: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/HTTPUnit

Received from http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 
Header:: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Header:: Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:03 GMT
Header:: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Header:: X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Header:: X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Header:: Cache-Control: private
Header:: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Header:: Content-Length: 3805

Connecting to helpdesk.jchs.com
Sending:: POST login.aspx
Sending:: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/HTTPUnit
Sending:: Referer: http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 
Sending:: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Received from http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 
Header:: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Header:: Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:03 GMT
Header:: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Header:: X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Header:: X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Header:: Location: /Default.aspx
Header:: Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=q4rrhcju0i0ozq55co3z1cr1; path=/; HttpOnly
Header:: Set-Cookie: .ASPXAUTH=3C3AB9D9A392EAA4A4E13661487C8706C3B8DFAAA11E5C70FF2E6852B32F3476BA658A2D5C8DAEA8B0B4B76432B3B617D0DEDA0B955C3DDCEFC1FF2C15D49792A20BCB6F1FC0E704FA186082542C1590; path=/; HttpOnly
Header:: Cache-Control: private
Header:: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Header:: Content-Length: 132

Connecting to helpdesk.jchs.com
Sending:: GET /Default.aspx
Sending:: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/HTTPUnit
Sending:: Referer: http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 

Received from http://helpdesk.jchs.com/Default.aspx 
Header:: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Header:: Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:03 GMT
Header:: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Header:: X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Header:: X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Header:: Location: /login.aspx
Header:: Cache-Control: private
Header:: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Header:: Content-Length: 130

Connecting to helpdesk.jchs.com
Sending:: GET /login.aspx
Sending:: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/HTTPUnit
Sending:: Referer: http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 

Received from http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 
Header:: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Header:: Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:03 GMT
Header:: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Header:: X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Header:: X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Header:: Cache-Control: private
Header:: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Header:: Content-Length: 3805

Connecting to helpdesk.jchs.com
Sending:: POST login.aspx
Sending:: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/HTTPUnit
Sending:: Referer: http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 
Sending:: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Received from http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 
Header:: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Header:: Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:03 GMT
Header:: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Header:: X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Header:: X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Header:: Location: /Default.aspx
Header:: Set-Cookie: ASP.NET_SessionId=ifnucv55nvthb345reh1wujj; path=/; HttpOnly
Header:: Set-Cookie: .ASPXAUTH=3FC5624FD6A6FBEAC5F0B0059B38F9DC5DACB08FDD803D73E23A881325BFA602B5F651004E64F9AA764246369A4C4F3200E8A8E75199D451F7494AB746A46A2E87533800BACE0B58AC46FD7963E8F55A; path=/; HttpOnly
Header:: Cache-Control: private
Header:: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Header:: Content-Length: 132

Connecting to helpdesk.jchs.com
Sending:: GET /Default.aspx
Sending:: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/HTTPUnit
Sending:: Referer: http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 

Received from http://helpdesk.jchs.com/Default.aspx 
Header:: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Header:: Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:03 GMT
Header:: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Header:: X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Header:: X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Header:: Location: /login.aspx
Header:: Cache-Control: private
Header:: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Header:: Content-Length: 130

Connecting to helpdesk.jchs.com
Sending:: GET /login.aspx
Sending:: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/HTTPUnit
Sending:: Referer: http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 

Received from http://helpdesk.jchs.com/login.aspx 
Header:: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Header:: Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:02:03 GMT
Header:: Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Header:: X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Header:: X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Header:: Cache-Control: private
Header:: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Header:: Content-Length: 3805


When I print out:  conversation.getCurrentPage().getText() , I receive the login page's html.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- Burt

Burt Carter
MCNE, MCSA, RHCT, MISM
Technology Director
Jenkins County School System


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