CODEWITHSUNDEEP
androidhttppostauthenticationwebview
javajavajavajavajava
javajavajavajavajava

Reputation: 1233

How to send POST data with code in an android webview

I have an android application that consists of a WebWiew and I need to login to a site automatically using code. I've tried using postUrl() and it seems to work... but only on some sites.

Here's the code I'm using:

public class webviewActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        WebView webview = new WebView(this);
        setContentView(webview);
        WebSettings webSettings = webview.getSettings();
        webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

        webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

        String postData = "[email protected]&login_password=myPassword";
        webview.postUrl("https://www.dropbox.com/login", EncodingUtils.getBytes(postData, "utf-8"));
    }
}

This Works great for dropbox.com, but other sites like google.com, facebook.com, etc. just load the login page or give an error (google.com gives an error saying I need to enable cookies).

Right now I'm just going the post data by hand; looking at the login form for the site and putting the name/value fields in the postData in my code. On sites like google, the login form has many hidden fields and I've been adding those to the postData also.

If anyone could give me any idea of something I'm doing wrong please let me know, I'm pretty confused about this.

Upvotes: 31

Views: 36300

Answers (3)

pruthwiraj.kadam
pruthwiraj.kadam

Reputation: 1093

WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);

String url="http://www.example.org/login";

String postData=
                "username="+URLEncoder.encode("abc","UTF8")+
                "&password="+URLEncoder.encode("***", "UTF-8");

myWebView.postUrl(url,postData.getBytes());

Upvotes: 2

Laxman
Laxman

Reputation: 111

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    WebView webView = new WebView(this);

    setContentView(webView);

    String url = "http://example.com/somepage.php";
    String postData = "postvar=value&postvar2=value2";

    webView.postUrl(url, EncodingUtils.getBytes(postData, "base64"));
}

Upvotes: 11

an00b
an00b

Reputation: 11468

Try replacing "utf-8" (in the 2nd param) with "BASE64".

Upvotes: 15

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