Posting credentials to cfhttp body using ColdFusion

I am passing few credentials along with __EVENTARGUMENT, __VIEWSTATE. But I was not able see the variables and data in the console or in the fiddler, Am I missing anything. I tried with url, formfield and body with no success. By the way I am using ColdFusion 9.

<cfset authenticationRequestBody = "__LASTFOCUS=#LASTFOCUS#&__EVENTTARGET=#EVENTTARGET#&__EVENTARGUMENT=#EVENTARGUMENT#&__VIEWSTATE=#EncodeViewState#&__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR=#EncodeViewGenerator#&__EVENTVALIDATION=#EncodeEventValidation#&#encodeForURL(UNameString)#=#UserName#&#encodeForURL(PwdString)#=#encodeForURL(Password)#&#encodeForURL(ButtonString)#=Submit">


<cfset stsUrl = "https://somesite.com/yyy/login.aspx" >
<cfhttp url="#stsUrl#" method="post"  resolveurl="no"  >
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Accept" value="application/xhtml+xml,text/html">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="REFERER" value="#BaseUrl#" >
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Accept-Language" value="en-US">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Connection" value="keep-alive" >
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="User-Agent" value="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.110 Safari/537.36" >
    <cfloop collection="#cookies#" item="i">
        <cfhttpparam type = "cookie" name="#i#" value="#cookies[i]#">
    </cfloop>
    <cfhttpparam type="body" name="PostData" value="#authenticationRequestBody#">


<cfoutput>
    <cfdump var="#GetHTTPRequestData()#">
</cfoutput>

This is Not a Problem related to the configuration Because I checked the JVM version and TLS version at the Site using SSL test server. There is something that I am missing here in the code..

Coldfusion 11 (Update 12) JVM : 1.8 TLS : 1.2

I was ablbe to get till the Login Screen. Even after passing the Username and Password in the body, it doesn't validate. When I access the URL directly with the same credentials it logs me in successfully.

Solution

Problem is not with the configuration or compatibility version.. The issue is with the cookies we are passing from the start.. When we navigate through a other page using cfhttp we need to carry the old cookies that we got from the past cfhttp calls.. Also in my case I need to initialize the cookie in the first call.. Below is the example for two calls..

<cfhttp url='#BaseUrl#' method="get" redirect="no">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Connection" value="keep-alive" >
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Cache-Control" value="no-cache">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="User-Agent" value="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="cookie" value="TestCookie=;" >
</cfhttp>

<cfhttp url="#stsUrl#" method="post"  redirect="no" resolveurl="yes" result="postResult" >
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="REFERER" value="#BaseUrl#" >
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Cache-Control" value="no-cache">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Connection" value="keep-alive" >
    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="User-Agent" value="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.110 Safari/537.36" >

    <cfhttpparam type="header" name="cookie" value="TestCookie=;" encoded="yes">

    <cfloop collection="#CookieList#" item="i">
        <cfhttpparam type="header" name="cookie" value="#CookieList[i]#" encoded="yes">
    </cfloop>

    <cfhttpparam name="__LASTFOCUS"  value="" type="formfield">
    <cfhttpparam name="__EVENTTARGET"  value="" type="formfield">
    <cfhttpparam name="__EVENTARGUMENT"  value="" type="formfield">
    <cfhttpparam name="__VIEWSTATE"  value="#VIEWSTATE#" type="formfield">
    <cfhttpparam name="__VIEWSTATEGENERATOR"  value="#VIEWSTATEGENERATOR#" type="formfield">
    <cfhttpparam name="__EVENTVALIDATION"  value="#EVENTVALIDATION#" type="formfield">
    <cfhttpparam name="ctl00$MainContent$LoginCtrl$UserName"  value="#UserName#" type="formfield">
    <cfhttpparam name="ctl00$MainContent$LoginCtrl$Password"  value="#Password#" type="formfield">
    <cfhttpparam name="ctl00$MainContent$LoginCtrl$LoginButton"  value="Submit" type="formfield">
</cfhttp>