HtmlUnit + Webclient.getPage throws

Question

I am trying to access a URL (admin.do) directly after logging into the application and the URL is a restricted page. However, when I run the scenario on browser, I am able to see the page getting redirected to access denied page. However, when I run the same with htmlunit, I see the following exception instead.

com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.FailingHttpStatusCodeException: 403 Forbidden for https://localhost:27216/app/admin.do
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.throwFailingHttpStatusCodeExceptionIfNecessary(WebClient.java:536)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:331)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:387)
    at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:372)

Any idea how to achieve this? Here is my code.

HtmlPage resp = null;
WebClient webClient = getWebClient();
HtmlPage page = (HtmlPage) webClient.getPage(url);

Check the headers. It maybe that the browser captured the cookies whereas htmlunit ignore it. — Minh Kieu, May 27 '16 at 08:37

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '16 at 10:58

Got it working. The exception is thrown and hence it doesn't allow the page to follow the redirect. I set the property throwExceptionOnFailingStatusCode on the WebClient to false, so that the the exception is ignored.

HtmlPage resp = null;
WebClient webClient = getWebClient();
webClient.setThrowExceptionOnFailingStatusCode(false);
HtmlPage page = (HtmlPage) webClient.getPage(url);

HtmlUnit + Webclient.getPage throws

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