Post method parameters

[billybatigol]

I have trouble login using the post method in a certain site. The parameters that I have to give are little confusing:

userName = user
pwd = pass
submit1 = %C5%DF%F3%EF%E4%EF%F2
loginTrue = login

First of all what is that "%C5%DF%F3%EF%E4%EF%F2" is? Other possibilities are that is a greek word with wrong text encoding. I know which greek word but I used it without luck. I implemented these parameters with the following code:

	NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:kFormURL]; 
	NSMutableURLRequest *req = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc]
								initWithURL:url]; 
	[req setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
	NSString *submit = @"%C5%DF%F3%EF%E4%EF%F2";
	NSString *paramDataString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"userName=user&pwd=pass&submit=%@&loginTrue=login", submit];
	
	NSData *paramData = [paramDataString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; 
	[req setHTTPBody: paramData];
	
		[webView loadRequest:req];

Is the dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding the problem?
I pass the submit1 with a NSString but I also passed it directly :

	NSString *paramDataString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"userName=cst01135&pwd=201201&submit=%C5%DF%F3%EF%E4%EF%F2&loginTrue=login"];

Secondly I am also concerned about the loginTrue = login. In a forum of the site I try to login someone wrote that the loginTrue parameter is read-only and he used something to pass login. This is the html code for these 2 parameters in case:

</SCRIPT>
<table BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0  width="500"  align="center"  style="margin-top:20">
<tr>
	<td align=center>
		<table border=0 class="tableborderColorOnly" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 style="width:100%">
			<tr><td>
					<TABLE class="tableCell" WIDTH="100%" BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=5 align="center">
						<tr>
						<td height="20" colspan=2 align="left" class="whiteheader"><b>Είσοδος Φοιτητή</b></td>
						</tr>
						
						<tr height="40" valign=bottom>
							<td width=120 align="right" nowrap valign="middle"><b>Όνομα χρήστη:</b></td>
							<td valign="middle" ><input id="userName" maxlength="15" name="userName" style="border: 1 solid #CCCCCC" size="20"></td>
					    </tr>
						<tr>
							<td align="right" valign="middle"><b> Κωδικός πρόσβασης:</b></td>
							<td valign="middle"><input type="password" id=pwd name=pwd style="border: 1 solid #CCCCCC" size="20"></td>
					    </tr>
						
						<TR height="50" valign="middle" >
							<TD align="right" colspan=2>
								<input type="submit" class="flatbtn" onclick="Submit()" value='Είσοδος' tabIndex=0 id=submit1 name=submit1>
							</TD>
						</TR>
						
					</TABLE>
			</td>
		</tr>
	</table>	
</td>
</tr>

<tr height="50" valign="bottom"><td class=pageheader>
<div  align="left" class=error id="result"></div>
</td></tr></table>


<input type="hidden" id="loginTrue" name="loginTrue" >
</FORM>

<script language=javascript>

function Submit()
{	
	document.getElementById("loginTrue").value="login";
}

</script>

In case you wonder when this code runs gives back an error of the site I try to login in my webView that says that this action gave an error.

[dany_dev]

I would try

[req setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[req setHTTPBody: paramData];

[billybatigol]

These 2 lines are already on my code

[dany_dev]

Originally Posted by billybatigol

These 2 lines are already on my code

mmm.....right I missed the setHTTPMethod line.....

%C5%DF%F3%EF%E4%EF%F2 is an url encoded string, user and password contain character that needed to be url encoded? if so, do it.

[billybatigol]

Ok I understand. But unfortunately the username and the password are just standard characters and numbers.