Dear All:

I am reading here http://groovy.codehaus.org/modules/http-builder/doc/handlers.html "In cases where a response sends a redirect status code, this is handled internally by Apache HttpClient, which by default will simply follow the redirect by re-sending the request to the new URL. You do not need to do anything special in order to follow 302 responses."

This seems to work fine when I simply use the get() or post() methods without a closure.

However, when I use a closure, I seem to lose 302 handling. Is there some way I can handle this myself? Thank you

p.s. Here is my log output showing it is a 302 response

 [java] FINER: resp.statusLine: "HTTP/1.1 302 Found"

Here is the relevant code:

// Copyright (C) 2010 Misha Koshelev. All Rights Reserved.
package com.mksoft.fbbday.main

import groovyx.net.http.ContentType

import java.util.logging.Level
import java.util.logging.Logger

class HTTPBuilder {
  def dataDirectory
  HTTPBuilder(dataDirectory) {
    this.dataDirectory=dataDirectory
  }

  // Main logic
  def logger=Logger.getLogger(this.class.name)
  def closure={resp,reader->
    logger.finer("resp.statusLine: \"${resp.statusLine}\"")
    if (logger.isLoggable(Level.FINEST)) {
      def respHeadersString='Headers:';
      resp.headers.each() { header->respHeadersString+="\n\t${header.name}=\"${header.value}\"" }
      logger.finest(respHeadersString)
    }

    def text=reader.text
    def lastHtml=new File("${dataDirectory}${File.separator}last.html")
    if (lastHtml.exists()) {
      lastHtml.delete()
    }
    lastHtml<<text
    new XmlSlurper(new org.cyberneko.html.parsers.SAXParser()).parseText(text)          
  }
  def processArgs(args) {
    if (logger.isLoggable(Level.FINER)) {
      def argsString='Args:';
      args.each() { arg->argsString+="\n\t${arg.key}=\"${arg.value}\"" }
      logger.finer(argsString)
    }
    args.contentType=groovyx.net.http.ContentType.TEXT
    args
  }

  // HTTPBuilder methods
  def httpBuilder=new groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder ()
  def get(args) {
    httpBuilder.get(processArgs(args),closure)
  }
  def post(args) {
    args.contentType=groovyx.net.http.ContentType.TEXT
    httpBuilder.post(processArgs(args),closure) 
  }
}

Here is a specific tester:

#!/usr/bin/env groovy

import groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder
import groovyx.net.http.Method
import static groovyx.net.http.ContentType.URLENC

import java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
import java.util.logging.Level
import java.util.logging.Logger

// MUST ENTER VALID FACEBOOK EMAIL AND PASSWORD BELOW !!!
def email=''
def pass=''

// Remove default loggers
def logger=Logger.getLogger('')
def handlers=logger.handlers
handlers.each() { handler->logger.removeHandler(handler) }

// Log ALL to Console
logger.setLevel Level.ALL
def consoleHandler=new ConsoleHandler()
consoleHandler.setLevel Level.ALL
logger.addHandler(consoleHandler)

// Facebook - need to get main page to capture cookies
def http = new HTTPBuilder()
http.get(uri:'http://www.facebook.com')

// Login
def html=http.post(uri:'https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1',body:[email:email,pass:pass])
assert html==null

// Why null?
html=http.post(uri:'https://login.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1',body:[email:email,pass:pass]) { resp,reader->
  assert resp.statusLine.statusCode==302

  // Shouldn't we be redirected???
  // http://groovy.codehaus.org/modules/http-builder/doc/handlers.html
  // "In cases where a response sends a redirect status code, this is handled internally by Apache HttpClient, which by default will simply follow the redirect by re-sending the request to the new URL. You do not need to do anything special in order to follow 302 responses. "
}

Here are relevant logs:

FINE: Receiving response: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Cache-Control: private, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Location: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << P3P: CP="DSP LAW"
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Pragma: no-cache
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Set-Cookie: datr=1275687438-9ff6ae60a89d444d0fd9917abf56e085d370277a6e9ed50c1ba79; expires=Sun, 03-Jun-2012 21:37:24 GMT; path=/; domain=.facebook.com
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Set-Cookie: lxe=koshelev%40post.harvard.edu; expires=Tue, 28-Sep-2010 15:24:04 GMT; path=/; domain=.facebook.com; httponly
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Set-Cookie: lxr=deleted; expires=Thu, 04-Jun-2009 21:37:23 GMT; path=/; domain=.facebook.com; httponly
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Set-Cookie: pk=183883c0a9afab1608e95d59164cc7dd; path=/; domain=.facebook.com; httponly
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << X-Cnection: close
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:37:24 GMT
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection receiveResponseHeader
FINE: << Content-Length: 0
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.client.protocol.ResponseProcessCookies processCookies
FINE: Cookie accepted: "[version: 0][name: datr][value: 1275687438-9ff6ae60a89d444d0fd9917abf56e085d370277a6e9ed50c1ba79][domain: .facebook.com][path: /][expiry: Sun Jun 03 16:37:24 CDT 2012]". 
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.client.protocol.ResponseProcessCookies processCookies
FINE: Cookie accepted: "[version: 0][name: lxe][value: koshelev%40post.harvard.edu][domain: .facebook.com][path: /][expiry: Tue Sep 28 10:24:04 CDT 2010]". 
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.client.protocol.ResponseProcessCookies processCookies
FINE: Cookie accepted: "[version: 0][name: lxr][value: deleted][domain: .facebook.com][path: /][expiry: Thu Jun 04 16:37:23 CDT 2009]". 
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.client.protocol.ResponseProcessCookies processCookies
FINE: Cookie accepted: "[version: 0][name: pk][value: 183883c0a9afab1608e95d59164cc7dd][domain: .facebook.com][path: /][expiry: null]". 
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector execute
FINE: Connection can be kept alive indefinitely
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder doRequest
FINE: Response code: 302; found handler: post302$_run_closure2@7023d08b
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder doRequest
FINEST: response handler result: null
Jun 4, 2010 4:37:22 PM org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager releaseConnection
FINE: Releasing connection org.apache.http.impl.conn.SingleClientConnManager$ConnAdapter@605b28c9

You can see there is clearly a location argument.

Thank you Misha