How to access a siteminder SSO protected url using a java client

I needed a piece of code that can access a siteminder SSO protected url/resource (something like this, http://xyz.abc.net/userList) . And I've heard quite a few times from other people that they wanted the same thing, so I've decided to write a piece of java code. Here are the basic steps to do it -

1. create a cookie store
2. create a httpclient with the cookie store
 CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
                    .setDefaultCookieStore(cookieStore)
                    .build();

3. send a http post to the siteminder protected url
    HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("http://xyz.abc.net/userList");
    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost);

4. check that the http response code is 302

5. grab the "Location" (response.getFirstHeader("Location").getValue())
    String location = response.getFirstHeader("Location").getValue();

6. create another httpPost using the Location url you get from step 5

7. set two form fields "USER" and "PASSWORD"
            HttpUriRequest httpPost2 = RequestBuilder
                    .post()
                    .setUri(new URI(location))
                    .addParameter("USER", uid)
                    .addParameter("PASSWORD", pwd).build();

8. response = httpclient.execute(httpPost2)

9. Check the cookie store, there should be a SMSESSION cookie now
   cookies = cookieStore.getCookies();
   for (int i = 0; i < cookies.size(); i++) {
                    System.out.println("- " + cookies.get(i).toString());
   }

10. new create a  httpget with the siteminder protected url and send the httpget with the httpclient, and aha, I could see the proper content in the response and http code 200.

That's it!  Hope this helps.