Importing Hotmail Address Book using Jakarta HttpClient

Question

Hi,
I am using jakarta httpclient to import hotmail address book. For that i am loading the login form first and then retrieving dynamic parameters and then posting the form for authentication of user.
I am unable to authenticate user after posting the form , it redirects me to the login page.
Can somebody help me to figure out what i am missing in my code??
Following is the code i have written so far:
(To run java one will need to enter hotmail emailId and password in the loginData)
package msn.contacts.fetcher;
import java.io.InputStream;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.Header;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.cookie.CookiePolicy;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.cyberneko.html.parsers.DOMParser;
import org.w3c.dom.NamedNodeMap;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
public class MSNContactsFetcher {
     private String msnLoginUrl = "http://login.live.com/login.srf";
     public void login(){
          HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
          httpClient.getParams().setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.BROWSER_COMPATIBILITY);
          int statusCode = -1;
          InputStream responseStream = null;
          DOMParser parser = null;
          InputSource source = null;
          try{
               GetMethod loadForm = new GetMethod(msnLoginUrl);
               loadForm.setFollowRedirects(true);
               statusCode = httpClient.executeMethod(loadForm);
               /*Header[] headers = loadForm.getResponseHeaders();
               for(int i= 0;i<headers.length;i++){
                    System.out.println("Header name:: " + headers.getName() + " value::: " + headers[i].getValue());
               System.out.println("Hotmail Status Code::: " + statusCode );          
               if(statusCode == HttpStatus.SC_OK){
                    System.out.println("Hotmail Login Form Loaded Successfully");
                    System.out.println(loadForm.getResponseBodyAsString());
                    //System.exit(1);
                    String PPFT = null;
                    String PPSX = null;
                    String loginFormAction;
                    parser = new DOMParser();
                    responseStream = loadForm.getResponseBodyAsStream();
                    source = new InputSource(responseStream);
                    parser.parse(source);
                    Node form = parser.getDocument().getElementsByTagName("form").item(0);
                    NamedNodeMap attributes = form.getAttributes();
                    String formAction = attributes.getNamedItem("action").getNodeValue();
                    System.out.println("Form action ::: " + formAction);
                    NodeList inputElements = parser.getDocument().getElementsByTagName("input");
                    Node inputNode;
                    String name;
                    for(int i=0;i<inputElements.getLength();i++){
                         inputNode = inputElements.item(i);
                         name = inputNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem("name").getNodeValue();
                         //System.out.println(name + " " + inputNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem("value").getNodeValue() );
                         if(name.equals("PPFT")){
                              PPFT = inputNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem("value").getNodeValue();
                         else if(name.equals("PPSX")){
                              PPSX = inputNode.getAttributes().getNamedItem("value").getNodeValue();
                         else if(PPFT != null && PPSX!= null)
                              break;
                         else
                              continue;
                    System.out.println("PPFT::: " + PPFT + " PPSX::: " + PPSX );
                    NameValuePair[] loginData = {
                              new NameValuePair("PPSX",PPSX),
                              new NameValuePair("PwdPad","IfYouAreReadingThisYouHaveTooMuc"),
                              new NameValuePair("login","<emailId>"),
                              new NameValuePair("passwd","<password>"),
                              new NameValuePair("LoginOptions","3"),                              
                              new NameValuePair("PPFT",PPFT)                              
                    PostMethod postLoginForm = new PostMethod(formAction);                         
                    postLoginForm.setRequestBody(loginData);
                    httpClient.executeMethod(postLoginForm);
                    statusCode = postLoginForm.getStatusCode();
                    System.out.println("Status Code::: " + statusCode);
                    String responseString = postLoginForm.getResponseBodyAsString();
                    System.out.println("Response string:: " + responseString);
          }catch(Exception ex){
               System.out.println("Exception Occurred -->> " + ex.getMessage());
               ex.printStackTrace();
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          System.getProperties().setProperty("httpclient.useragent", " Mozilla/5.0 (Win98; I;Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4");
          System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.Log","org.apache.commons.logging.impl.SimpleLog");
          System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.showdatetime","true");
          System.setProperty("org.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.log.httpclient.wire.header","debug");
          MSNContactsFetcher msn = new MSNContactsFetcher();
          msn.login();

Answer 1

are you having issues with the initial login, or is hotmail successfully taking your information, but failing to remember it when you access more of the site for address book information gathering?
If the first part is happening, you're probably not setting up your connection within a SSL environment correctly (I'm only guessing that's what hotmail uses, as I'm not a hotmail user). There's plenty of documentation on apache's jakarta site on how to do this/troubleshoot it.
If you're connecting, and it's not holding the information, then the cookie storing is not set up right. In that case, you may want to post a new topic more specifically relating to cookies (probably want to do it in the networking section of these forums, as it's far more pertinent there).
I wish I could help you more, but I am far more familiar with instantiating web connections via the UrlConnection class, and not with the Jakarta Commons libraries. :(