hi, first think what happend in formbased authentication 1. first user sends a request to a restricted resource 2. server sends the loging page to broser 3. then user submits a request to j_security_check with user name and password 4. sever sends the initialy requested page to user.
so u have to do the same steps from your program 1. send a request to a restricted resource (eg. use GetMethod) 2. read the response ( this is actually not necessary but u can veryfy u have got login page) 3. send the j_username and j_password to j_security_check (Make sure u set the session ID as a cookie if u use a different connection) 4. u should receive originally requested page. but I belive this belongs to user list Amila.
