Re: How to login to a site using cookie? (not applet)

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:37:08 GMT
Message-ID:
<7597eddaa53d7@uwe>
Roedy Green wrote:

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/
It takes care of all the details of session state.

The catch is it is about 3 MB. ...


Not necessarily. I am not familiar with the licence of
the HTTPClient, but it is technically possible to rejar
an API so that it only includes the classes immediately
required. I am betting that will be a lot less than 3 meg.

...You would not want to download that on
every Applet. ...


The OP stated (in the subject) 'not applet'.

...You would want to pre-install it in an EXT directory or
use Java Web Start so it will be cached.


..in fact, one might rejar a web start component
(as HTTPClient might be deployed) ..break it up
into one jar per package, and deploy them as 'lazy'
downloads, to let JWS do a somewhat less optimal,
but much simpler to deploy, option of the launch.

Not that I agree with helping for this end purpose,
short of the OP ever getting back to us on a few
points, but I am just saying..

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