Java APIs

Greetings,

I know this isn't a core package but wanted to ask here anyway in the hopes that maybe someone has had some experience with it. I am trying to make a program to do basic form authentication, and then after logging in, access a login protected page. I created a simple login form + php session protected page to test the app, and the app can access the protected page as expected if I supply the correct username/password (and likewise does not work if I do not supply the correct login info). However, when I try to use it for real and point it to my phpbb forum, I can't get past the login page (I am passing the correct form values), httpclient handles the cookie management auto magically so i'm not sure whats going on there other then I can echo them out and see that I am receiving cookies on each page hit (likewise I am not 100% familiar with how phpbb forum login process works, just working off the form html atm). Here is my code, I have tried it without success using every cookie specification, any ideas welcome...I think the next step if I can't get this to work I guess is to just build it with java.net and handle post/cookies manually though idealy id like to stick with the httpclient

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*;

public class LoginTest
{ 
     
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { 
          
      HttpClient client = new HttpClient();    
      GetMethod getPage = new GetMethod("http://website/login.php?mode=login"); 
          
       client.executeMethod(getPage); 
       //client.getParams().setCookiePolicy(CookiePolicy.RFC_2965);
                  
       //Login page
       PostMethod postLogin = new PostMethod("http://website/login.php?mode=login"); 
          
        NameValuePair[] data = { 
          new NameValuePair("username" , "joesmith"), 
          new NameValuePair("password", "foobar")  
         }; 
          
         postLogin.setRequestBody(data);        
         client.executeMethod(postLogin); 
          
          
        //this is a request to a page that requires authentication 
        GetMethod getPage2 = new GetMethod("http://website/protected/page.php"); 
          
        client.executeMethod(getPage2); 
          
        System.out.println(getPage2.getResponseBodyAsString());    
                  
          
     } 
}