Passing session ID over HttpURLConnection

[zuzacat]

Hi,

I have a jsp page and a class. I am creating a new object from the class in the jsp and in the class I have HttpURLConnection, the url given is authorization required it mean it checks for the session.

What I want to do is I want to pass the session in jsp to HttpURLConnection.

Here is my jsp:

ExportToPDF pdf = new ExportToPDF();
pdf.setUrlString("http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com");
pdf.createPDF(request, response, session);

and here is my method in my class:

public void createPDF(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, HttpSession session) throws IOException, ParserConfigurationException, 
			SAXException, DocumentException {
		
		String sessionId = session.getId();
		URL url	= new URL(this.getUrlString());
		
		HttpURLConnection urlConn = null;
		urlConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
		
		urlConn.setRequestMethod("POST");
                HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(true);
                urlConn.setDoOutput(true);
                urlConn.setDoInput(true);
                urlConn.setUseCaches(false);
                urlConn.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
                urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
                urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Language", "en-US");
                urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", sessionId);
		
		InputStream byteStream 	= urlConn.getInputStream();
		
		OutputStream os = response.getOutputStream();

Can you help me what am I missing here ?
Thank you.

[doWhile]

cross posted at Passing session ID over HttpURLConnection

[Tolls]

I might be being a bit confused here, but I presume that website you are trying to connect to is not the current website (server) you are running this code from?
If so then why are you sending the session id for your current session on your server?

[zuzacat]

Hi,
Thank you for your response.

Yes the URL I am trying connect is in the same server. I will try to explain what I am trying to do.

The page which I want to connect is authorized with session value. I want to connect that page to create a PDF version of that page.

So how can I achieve this ?

[Tolls]

So you've got an html to pdf converter, and you want to turn a page on your website into a PDF.
OK.
That Cookie parameter I believe should have "<parameter_name>="+sessionId.
Now, I don't know what the parameter name for the session is is, so you might need to look in the cookie produced by your site and see.

[zuzacat]

Hi,

So the way I am on is correct isnt it ?
There is only JSESSIONID which I need.

[Tolls]

I think so.
This should set the cookie:

urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", <correct string here>);

Try it.

[zuzacat]

I got it working. I forgot to include JSESSIONID in value.

I changed this:
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", "sessionid");
with this:
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", "JSESSIONID=sessionid");

Thank you Tolls :)