Sending Session ID Cookie With Java?

[sanddbox]

Anyone know how to send my session id along with my request in java so the site realizes I'm logged in?

[faazshift]

Well, you have to send the cookie containing your session id. In the case of this site, its called PHPSESSID. You send it as part of the cookie header. For example (look at last line):

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GET /forums/posting.php?mode=reply&f=19&t=4423 HTTP/1.0
Host: www.hackthissite.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091107 Gentoo Firefox/3.5.5 GTB6
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.hackthissite.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4423
Cookie: some_cookie=text; another_cookie=blah; PHPSESSID=EDITED

Im not sure how to do that in java, but basically just send the session id cookie.

[sanddbox]

Well, you have to send the cookie containing your session id. In the case of this site, its called PHPSESSID. You send it as part of the cookie header. For example (look at last line):

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GET /forums/posting.php?mode=reply&f=19&t=4423 HTTP/1.0
Host: www.hackthissite.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091107 Gentoo Firefox/3.5.5 GTB6
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.hackthissite.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4423
Cookie: some_cookie=text; another_cookie=blah; PHPSESSID=EDITED

Im not sure how to do that in java, but basically just send the session id cookie.

I understand that part; I'm just not sure exactly how to send it.

[faazshift]

Ah. In php, python, c++, etc, you create a socket, connect it to the webserver, write the request headers, and read the response. Doing a quick google search ('java sockets'), I found one of several step-by-step tutorials: http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Java/Socket-Programming-in-Java/. Hope this helps!

[sanddbox]

Ah. In php, python, c++, etc, you create a socket, connect it to the webserver, write the request headers, and read the response. Doing a quick google search ('java sockets'), I found one of several step-by-step tutorials: http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Java/Socket-Programming-in-Java/. Hope this helps!

Thanks.