Uploading a file to a php site using java

Question

I am trying to login to a webpage and upload a file. After searching for a while i found a solution which uses selenium. The html code of the page looks like this:

<html>
  <head><title>some title</title></head>
    <body>
     <h1>upload</h1>
       upload your file<br>
        <form action="hx2.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
           <input type="hidden" name="action" value="upload">
           <input type="hidden" name="debug" value="">
           <input type="file" name="filename">
           <input type="submit" value="Datei senden">
           <input type="reset">
        </form>
      </body>
 </html>

and the java code used to login the page and upload my file:

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class Example_1 {
    public static final String BASEURL = "somesite.de/";
    private static WebDriver driver;
    public static void main(String[] args) {
       String geckoPath = "C:\\...\\gecko\\geckodriver.exe";
       System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver",geckoPath);
       driver = new FirefoxDriver();
       loginAndUpload("uname", "pwd","C:\\...\\myFile.xml");        
    }
    public static void loginAndUpload(String uname, String pwd, String filePath){
        String URL = "http://" + uname + ":" + pwd + "@" + BASEURL;
        driver.get(URL);

        driver.findElement(By.name("filename")).sendKeys(filePath);

        driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type=submit]")).click();
        driver.findElement(By.name("tan")).sendKeys("123");

        driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type=submit]")).click();

        System.out.println(driver.getPageSource().contains("successful")?"successfully uploaded":"upload not successful");
        driver.quit();
    }
}

In order to make this work i needed to download the geckodriver.exe and add 3 external jar files. Additionally, as i am new to selenium, i tried to read something about it and found out that it is a software-testing framework. So my question is: is this a proper way to upload files or am i missusing selenium? If so, is there a simpler/easier way to login a website and upload a file?

Thilo Schwarz · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-16 17:43:25Z

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You should give HttpClient a chance. It is well documented and has a lot of examples. HttpClient is a full implementation of all HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, and TRACE) in an extensible OO framework. Many authentication schemas are already implemented.

answered Oct 16, 2017 at 17:43

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