Posting HTTPS form results in html 404 status code - https

Question

I keep getting a HTML 404 reply from the server when I try to login via a httppost (https). Not sure if this is a cookie problem or something else. The code should be good as I have copied it from another activity. I need some help.
This is my current code:
public int postData(String usernamne, String password) {
String url = "https://domainname.com/nclogin.submit";
HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
try {
KeyStore trusted = null;
try {
trusted = KeyStore.getInstance("BKS");
} catch (KeyStoreException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
trusted.load(null, "".toCharArray());
MySSLSocketFactory sslf = null;
try {
sslf = new MySSLSocketFactory(trusted);
} catch (KeyManagementException e) {
Log.d(TAG, "Exception " + e);
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (UnrecoverableKeyException e) {
Log.d(TAG, "Exception " + e);
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (KeyStoreException e) {
Log.d(TAG, "Exception " + e);
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
sslf.setHostnameVerifier(SSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
List<NameValuePair> nameValuePairs = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("f_username", "myemail#address.com"));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("f_passwd", "mypassword"));
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("f_method", "LOGIN"));
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = new SchemeRegistry();
schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("https", sslf, 443));
SingleClientConnManager cm = new SingleClientConnManager(httppost.getParams(), schemeRegistry);
// NEW API WONT ALLOW THIS IN THE MAIN THREAD! hence ASYNC
DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(cm, httppost.getParams());
HttpResponse result = client.execute(httppost);
// Check if server response is valid
StatusLine status = result.getStatusLine();
Log.d(TAG, "STatus" + result.getStatusLine());
if (status.getStatusCode() != 200) {
throw new IOException("Invalid response from server: " + status.toString());
}
HttpEntity entity = result.getEntity();
InputStream is = entity.getContent();
if (is != null) {
is.close(); // release connection
}
String phpsessid = "";
// cookies from another blog
// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4224913/android-session-management
List cookies = client.getCookieStore().getCookies();
if (cookies.isEmpty()) {
Log.d(TAG, "no cookies received");
} else {
for (int i = 0; i < cookies.size(); i++) {
// Log.d(TAG, "COOKIE-" + i + " " +
// cookies.get(i).toString());
if (cookies.get(i).toString().contains("PHPSESSID")) {
phpsessid = cookies.get(i).toString();
Log.d(TAG, "COOKIE FOR PHPSESSID - " + phpsessid);
}
}
} // end of blog
entity.consumeContent();
client.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (CertificateException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
return 1;
} // end of postData()
public class MySSLSocketFactory extends SSLSocketFactory {
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
public MySSLSocketFactory(KeyStore truststore)
throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException,
KeyStoreException, UnrecoverableKeyException {
super(truststore);
TrustManager tm = new X509TrustManager() {
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
String authType) throws CertificateException {
}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
String authType) throws CertificateException {
}
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
};
sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[] { tm }, null);
}
#Override
public Socket createSocket(Socket socket, String host, int port,
boolean autoClose) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
return sslContext.getSocketFactory().createSocket(socket, host,
port, autoClose);
}
#Override
public Socket createSocket() throws IOException {
return sslContext.getSocketFactory().createSocket();
}
I know the url is correct, as are the name value pairs, as I can login via a query string via a browser or via wget:
https://domainname.com/nclogin.submit?f_username=myemail#email.com&f_passwd=password&f_method=LOGIN
This results in a connection established and a redirect to my dashboard page.
The HTML code (source) from the login page can be viewed
here