Connecting to Authlogic using android

[Sandeep Seshadri]

i am new to authlogic as well as android. My problem is i am trying to
use restful api to connect to a login form which is using authlogic. i
figured out i cannot directly post my username and password to the
user_session page since i need the hidden variable auth_token from the
login form page.

How can i retrive the auth_token from the form page without having to
download the signin page and parse the html to find the value for the
hidden variable.

is there a better approach.

any insight on this issue would be very helpful.

Sandeep