Simplest Jetty HttpClient to work in HTTPS

Took me a while to find out how to make HttpClient in Jetty works over Https - The problem is that Jetty HttpClient does not maintain the session nor the cookies for you, and you have to set it manually after being authenticated at the first place.

Here is a simple example to illustrate it:

package Testing;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

import org.eclipse.jetty.client.ContentExchange;

import org.eclipse.jetty.client.HttpClient;

import org.eclipse.jetty.client.HttpExchange;

import org.eclipse.jetty.io.Buffer;

public class JettyHttpClientCookieTest {

    public final static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        String loginUri = new String("https://10.176.40.10:8443/admin?op=login&username=<username>&password=<password>");

        String setGroupUri = new String("https://10.176.40.10:8443/admin?op=setGroup&groupId=1");

        if (httpClient == null) {

            httpClient = new HttpClient(); 

        }

     httpClient.setConnectorType(HttpClient.CONNECTOR_SELECT_CHANNEL);  

     try {

         System.out.println("Start the Http client...");

         httpClient.start();    

         

         System.out.println("Login to CMS ...");

         ContentExchange exchange = new ContentExchange(true) {

             protected void onResponseHeader(Buffer name, Buffer value) throws IOException {

                 System.out.println("Buffer name: " + name.toString() + "; Buffer value: " + value.toString());

                 if (name.toString().equals("Set-Cookie")) {

                     cookies.add(value.toString());

                 }

            }

         };

         exchange.setMethod("POST");

         exchange.setURL(loginUri);

      

         httpClient.send(exchange);

         if (exchange.waitForDone() == ContentExchange.STATUS_COMPLETED) {

             System.out.println("ContentExchange content: " + exchange.getResponseContent());

         }

            

         System.out.println("Set the group");

         ContentExchange exchange2 = new ContentExchange(true);

         exchange2.setMethod("POST");

         exchange2.setURL(setGroupUri);

         for (String cookie: cookies) {

             exchange2.setRequestHeader("Cookie", cookie);

         }

         httpClient.send(exchange2);

         if (exchange2.waitForDone() == ContentExchange.STATUS_COMPLETED) {

             System.out.println("ContentExchange content: " + exchange2.getResponseContent());

         }

        

         System.out.println("Fetch Shefl...");

         ContentExchange exchange3 = new ContentExchange(true);

         String fetchShelfUri = new String("https://10.176.40.10:8443/fetch?shelf");

         exchange3.setMethod("GET");

         exchange3.setURL(fetchShelfUri);

         for (String cookie: cookies) {

             exchange3.setRequestHeader("Cookie", cookie);

         }

         httpClient.send(exchange3);

         if (exchange3.waitForDone() == ContentExchange.STATUS_COMPLETED) {

             System.out.println("ContentExchange content: " + exchange3.getResponseContent());

         }

         

         System.out.println("Done");

     }

     catch (Exception e) {

         return;

     }

    }

    

    public static class JettyHttpExchangeExt extends HttpExchange {

        // Examine the response header

        protected void onResponseHeader(Buffer name, Buffer value) throws IOException {

             System.out.println("Buffer name: " + name.toString() + "; Buffer value: " + value.toString());

        }

    }

    public static List<String> cookies = new ArrayList<String>();

    public static HttpClient httpClient = null;

}