I'm trying to port an Android app to IOS platform. I get data from a service located in an Apache Tomcat server and recently they added security on the service. The security overview is
- https simple request
- if(valid_user)->service returns data
- else->service returns login form ->post credentials->service returns data
The Android version work without problem. Before security was added I was performing simple http request but now I need to do a POST request with my credentials and I allways receive error.html as result. I'm far from being expert on network programming.
This is the Android http client setup code:
if(httpClient==null)
{
DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
KeyStore trustStore = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType());
trustStore.load(null, null);
SSLSocketFactory sf = new MySSLSocketFactory(trustStore);
sf.setHostnameVerifier(SSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
SchemeRegistry registry = new SchemeRegistry();
registry.register(new Scheme("https", sf, 8443));
mgr = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(client.getParams(), registry);
int timeoutConnection = 5000;
HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(client.getParams(), timeoutConnection);
// Set the default socket timeout (SO_TIMEOUT)
// in milliseconds which is the timeout for waiting for data.
int timeoutSocket = 7000;
HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(client.getParams(), timeoutSocket);
httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(mgr, client.getParams());
}
And this is MySSLSocketFactory class:
public class MySSLSocketFactory extends SSLSocketFactory {
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
public MySSLSocketFactory(KeyStore truststore) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException, KeyStoreException, UnrecoverableKeyException {
super(truststore);
TrustManager tm = new X509TrustManager() {
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
}
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
};
sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[] { tm }, null);
}
@Override
public Socket createSocket(Socket socket, String host, int port, boolean autoClose) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
return sslContext.getSocketFactory().createSocket(socket, host, port, autoClose);
}
@Override
public Socket createSocket() throws IOException {
return sslContext.getSocketFactory().createSocket();
}
}
This is the POST request code for Android (it is working OK):
...
HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost(host+"/serviceName/j_security_check");
List<BasicNameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList<BasicNameValuePair>();
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("j_username", userName));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("j_password", userPassword));
try {
httpost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nvps, HTTP.UTF_8));
}
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
try {
httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpost);
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
entity = httpResponse.getEntity();
...
I have tried several ways but allways with the same result. I only add code that I think is remarkable:
-(void)connection:(NSURLConnection *)connection willSendRequestForAuthenticationChallenge:(NSURLAuthenticationChallenge *)challenge
{
NSURLCredential *credential=[NSURLCredential credentialWithUser:self.userName password:self.userpassword persistence:NSURLCredentialPersistenceForSession];
[[challenge sender] useCredential:credential forAuthenticationChallenge:challenge];
}
In the method where the POST request is defined:
{
...
NSString *urlstr=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@",host,@"serviceName/j_security_check"];
NSURL *url=[[NSURL alloc]initWithString:urlstr];
NSMutableURLRequest *request=[NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
NSString *params=[[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:@"j_username=my_userName&j_userpassword=my_userPassword"];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setHTTPBody:[params dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[[NSURLConnection alloc]initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
}
I have been searching for a valid POST request on the web but none has been usefull...
If you need more info please ask for it
Your help is apreciated.
EDIT: I changed willSendRequestForAuthenticationChallenge delegate because with the previous one I don't get the login.html form.
EDIT: I added http client setup code from android. Now the method posting data looks similar to @MTahir answer but I still get the error.html, which means (I think) that the POST method is working ok but the data isn't encripted the correct way.