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Mark Lyons
Mark Lyons

Reputation: 1422

Android App - Log into site WITHOUT authentication?

I am working on an Android login app for a service called Netclassroom. There are many for different schools (you can google for one), but I'd prefer not to share the one I'm working on. They're all the same. I want the app to log into the site using given credentials, but I'm running into a problem.

The problem is that it "does not use authentication" and the post request doesn't work? Is it even possible to log into a site like this? By that I mean that I want to enter credentials and get to the member page to parse.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 953

Answers (1)

Jeffrey Blattman
Jeffrey Blattman

Reputation: 22637

You can make an app that just starts the browser on a particular URL. Here's a post that describes how to do it,

How can I open a URL in Android's web browser from my application?

Further, I think you are asking if the app can circumvent the normal web page login mechanism. Don't do that. There's a login on the web page for a reason. If your app gets around that, then it's decreasing the security that the folks that designed the web page put in place. The correct thing to do is to work with the folks that wrote the website. If they think what you are doing is acceptable, they should make their login cookie longer-lived, or allow the user / pass fields to be stored in the browser, etc.

Again, there's absolutely no rational for making the android app less secure than the browser app.

Upvotes: 1

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