(URGENT) Using URLConnection to POST login information

[duane]

Dear Expert:

I am working on a program that would allow me to login to my yahoo
account using
URLconnection Java object. I have been able to get into the login page
but was not able to send the username and password.

The main problem is I don't know the name of the script that I should
send my username and password to. Is there a way to find out what
would be the script that is used by them (Yahoo) to authenticate the
username and password?

Below is the program:
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protected void sendUserName()
{
//NOTE: Mine should look something like this:
// URL url = new
URL("http://www.javacourses.com/cgi-bin/names.cgi");
// But I have problem finding out the script used by Yahoo to
do
// the authentication
URL url = new URL("http://mail.yahoo.com");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)
url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setDoOutput(true);
PrintWriter out = new
PrintWriter(connection.getOutputStream());

// Encode the message
String login = "login="+URLEncoder.encode("myUserName",
"UTF-8");
String pwd = "passwd="+URLEncoder.encode("myPasswd", "UTF-8");

// Send the encoded message
out.println(login+"&"+pwd);
out.close();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(line);
}
in.close();
}
}
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[Lothar Kimmeringer]

The main problem is I don't know the name of the script that I should
send my username and password to. Is there a way to find out what
would be the script that is used by them (Yahoo) to authenticate the
username and password?

Your browser.


Regards, Lothar
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