Basic JSoup form Submission

Question

My form submission does not seem to work, I tried JAunt it was able to submit so when using JSoup I don't understand why it returns 404.

Connection.Response response = Jsoup.connect("https://crawlertest284814019.wordpress.com/contact/#contact-form-7")
    .userAgent("Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WindowsNT 5.1; en-US; rv1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6")
    .data("name", "nameeee")
    .method(Connection.Method.POST)
    .execute();

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
    <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
    <version>1.13.1</version>
</dependency>

I tried with:

url https://crawlertest284814019.wordpress.com/contact/
data "name", "nameeee" produces 404 status
data "g7-name", "nameeee" no issue but no submission
data "Name", "nameeee" no issue but no submission
data with Map<String, String> no issue but no submission

Your form seems to also contain some `` elements which probably should also be sent. — Pshemo, Mar 09 '21 at 16:20
@Pshemo you are absolutely correct! I did not notice those fields. Thank you so much. — cristopher cutas, Mar 09 '21 at 16:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '21 at 16:37

As pointed out by @Pshemo, the code is ok however the data passed is lacking. Those hidden fields contain information required in order for the submission to be valid. In the case of this question the hidden fields are:

<input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="4d18e01372">
<input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="/contact/">
<input type="hidden" name="contact-form-id" value="7">
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="grunion-contact-form">
<input type="hidden" name="contact-form-hash" value="07cbf543790375cf26022ad8826a8dbb8787beae">

So aside from the required fields make sure to submit the hidden once as well.


Document document = Jsoup.connect("https://crawlertest284814019.wordpress.com/contact/#contact-form-7")
    .data("g7-name", "Super sName")
    .data("_wpnonce", "4d18e01372")
    .data("_wp_http_referer", "/contact/")
    .data("action", "grunion-contact-form")
    .data("contact-form-id", "7")
    .data("contact-form-hash", "07cbf543790375cf26022ad8826a8dbb8787beae")
    .post();

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 09 '21 at 15:29

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Status code 404 is a client-side error, there is something wrong with your input. Refer below link it will solve your problem. How to post form login using jsoup?

answered Mar 09 '21 at 15:29

aparna_shelar

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trying the actual `name=` value of the field which in this case is `g7-name` does not seem to do any different. no error but no submission entry as well. – cristopher cutas Mar 09 '21 at 15:48

Basic JSoup form Submission

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