Difference between revisions of "Nokia Friend View"

Revision as of 19:59, 5 November 2008

Nokia Friend View is an experimental micro-blogging tool with integrated location features.

(This information is preliminary and unofficial).

If you POST with username and password:

curl -L -c friendview-cookies.txt -D - -d "j_username=USERNAME&j_password=PASSWORD" https://friendview.nokia.com/j_acegi_security_check

you will get returned, on success, an HTML document out of which you can parse a Session Token:

<script>sessionToken='55b5509d793faedd'</script>

Once you have authenticated, status updates can be sent by HTTP POST to:

with the following parameters:

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 <pre>
-curl -D - -d "j_username=USERNAME&j_password=PASSWORD" https://friendview.nokia.com/j_acegi_security_check
+curl -L -c friendview-cookies.txt -D - -d "j_username=USERNAME&j_password=PASSWORD" https://friendview.nokia.com/j_acegi_security_check
 </pre>
-you get back:
+you will get returned, on success, an HTML document out of which you can parse a Session Token:
 <pre>
-HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
+<script>sessionToken='55b5509d793faedd'</script>
-Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:06:04 GMT
-Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
-Location: https://friendview.nokia.com/map.jsp;jsessionid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
-Content-Length: 0
-Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX; Path=/
-Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
 </pre>
-=== Posting ===
+=== Posting Status Updates ===
-Status updates are HTTP POSTed to:
+Once you have authenticated, status updates can be sent by HTTP POST to:
 https://friendview.nokia.com/Map.action?postStatusMessage
@@ Line 34: / Line 28: @@
 * messageText - the text of the status update
+* sessionToken - the value of the sessionToken parsed as above