Logging in to facebook using apache HTTP client - facebook

Question

I am trying to write automated tests for a REST API using apache HTTP client, we are using Facebook as an affiliate to log in.
I have used this question as a starting point:
apache HttpClient to access facebook
But it is using lots of deprecated methods.
I have switched all of these out but I am finding that it is not working.
to validate I have written a method to print out the body response and I am viewing that by making it into a HTML document. When I load that page it has the facebook error message of:
Cookies Required
Cookies are not enabled on your browser. Please enable cookies in your browser preferences to continue.
My code:
CookieStore cs = new BasicCookieStore();
HttpClientContext context = HttpClientContext.create();
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://www.facebook.com/login.php");
HttpResponse response= HttpClientBuilder.create().setDefaultCookieStore(cs).build().execute(httpget);
System.out.println("Login form get: " + response.getStatusLine());
HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost("https://www.facebook.com/login.php");
context.setCookieStore(cs);
List <NameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList <NameValuePair>();
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("email", "******"));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("pass", "*****"));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("lsd", "AVptst2v"));
httpost.setHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
httpost.setHeader("Host", "www.facebook.com");
httpost.setHeader("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8");
httpost.setHeader("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.5");
httpost.setHeader("Cookie", cs.toString());
httpost.setHeader("Connection", "keep-alive");
httpost.setHeader("Referer", "https://www.facebook.com/login");
httpost.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
httpost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nvps));
response = HttpClientBuilder.create().setDefaultCookieStore(cs).build().execute(httpost,context);
System.out.println("Login form post: " + response.getStatusLine());
System.out.println(printBodyOfResponse(response));

Answer 1

To answer my own question, I found that creating a context and passing that through with each request carried the session, I see lots of answers saying that cookie management is automatic, but for me the only solution was to pass the context throughout
BasicHttpContext context = new BasicHttpContext();
HttpGet get = new HttpGet("http://www.facebook.com/login.php");
HttpResponse response= HttpClientBuilder.create().build().execute(get,context);
System.out.println("Login form get: " + response.getStatusLine());
HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost("https://www.facebook.com/login.php?login_attempt=1");
List <NameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList <NameValuePair>();
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("email",PropertiesUtil.loadSiteProperty("FB_email")));
nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("pass", PropertiesUtil.loadSiteProperty("FB_password")));
httpost.setHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
httpost.setHeader("Host", "www.facebook.com");
httpost.setHeader("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8");
httpost.setHeader("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.5");
httpost.setHeader("Connection", "keep-alive");
httpost.setHeader("Referer", "https://www.facebook.com/login");
httpost.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
httpost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nvps));
response = HttpClientBuilder.create().build().execute(httpost,context);