Posting to a URL connection and receiving a response...please help!

Question

Ok, here's the deal. Im trying to connect to a site, submit my username and password, and then retrieve the HTML source code for the page after I'm logged in so I can parse it and further manipulate it. So far, I'm establishing a connection and posting the info I want, but when I print the DataInputStream at the end, I keep getting the source code for the log in page, not the page after I'm logged in...so I'm guessing I'm not really getting logged in at all. I put my code below, please tell me whats wrong!! I really appriciate any help you can offer.
-DFG
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.lang.String.*;
public class URLReader {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
URL url;
URLConnection urlConn;
DataOutputStream printout;
DataInputStream input;
url = new URL ("www.someURL.com");
urlConn = url.openConnection();
urlConn.setDoInput (true);
urlConn.setDoOutput (true);
urlConn.setUseCaches (false);
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
printout = new DataOutputStream (urlConn.getOutputStream ());
String content = "userid=" + URLEncoder.encode("username") +"&pass=" + URLEncoder.encode("password");
printout.writeBytes(content);
printout.flush();
printout.close();
input = new DataInputStream (urlConn.getInputStream ());
String str;
while (null != ((str=input.readLine()))) {
System.out.println (str);
input.close();
catch(MalformedURLException mue) {
System.out.println("exception");
catch(IOException ioe) {
System.out.println("exception");
catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("exception");
}

Answer 1

Suppose the target website has the following pages:
index.html (contains username, password fields and posts to login.html)
login.html (processes the logging and displays the secured data).
You should be posting the username and password to login.html. If so, I suspect that the login page you are posting to is not receiving the username and password and is simply outputting the login form again. Is this what happens when you open the url in a web browser and attempt to login with no username and password?