Hi Guy's

if i need to send a comand like below which opens relay number one on a ip server what is the easiest way? can it be done on a single button press?

[Link: 192.168.1.3]


Thanks
Daniel

i think you could you the TCP/ip script from the pronto web site to send
(http)://192.168.1.3/Set.cmd?cmd=setpower+p61=1t"

i had to put the bracket in to show the string

I've been working on almost exactly the same thing (an Avios IP Power 9258)

PS should be:

socket = new TCPSocket(false);
socket.onConnect = function(){
socket.write("GET /Set.cmd?CMD=SetPower+p61=1t HTTP/1.0 \r\n\r\n");
}

socket.connect('192.168.1.3', 80, 3000);


Just check that the port number is the same (80 in the above case) / if you have to specify it.

Also, should there definitely be a t after 1 in 'SetPower +p61=1t' ? (not needed on my device otherwise the syntax is identical.)

Also in my case I have to use the authentication of login and password - if you do too you'll need to add....:

Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46MTIzNDU2Nzg=

....before the HTTP/1.0 business... Above authorisation is converted to Base64 and is for default login/password.

If you have changed your login/password you will need to add your own base64 conversion of your login/password - google a site that does it for you.

Cheers

Zed

Hi Zed,

You are awesome....... and you are right there is no t :)


Thanks heaps.

Thanks again
Daniel

Hi Guy's

i have gone with the Aviosys 9202 4 channel ip server and i have got My relays turning on and off, but i cannot find a pulse command. Anybody got any ideas?

(http:)//192.168.1.69/SetIO?p63=0 = off
(http:)//192.168.1.69/SetIO?p63=1 = on

Thanks heaps
Daniel

If the command has a http .... starting you must use a http protocol, otherwise the device will not understand it or better it will reject the application-layer connection and the "handshaking".

Look at the http library from philips. The part that zedmtrappe provided is a way to do it, but it's not a really right way, because the http header is missing some key strings, like the Connection: close:

HTTP/1.1 applications that do not support persistent connections MUST include the "close" connection option in every message.

As you don't know if the embedded http server supports a persistent connection, you should always close it. Anyway if you do use such things, you should do it the right way, so you don't regret it in the future:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org]

Ok BluPhenix, I have to admit I'm no expert as regards this TCPIP HTTP malarkey - but I do know that the method I posted works 100% reliably for my device - though I'm willing to accept that it may be more by accident than design!

In my case I would have liked to have used the philips HTTP library but had no success - I believe that's because as far as I can tell it does not support authentication?

Also I omitted the socket.close() command because my device closes the connection at then end of each response - according to it's response - if that makes sense!

Anyway, like I said I'm new to this aspect of this so any input welcomed.

Cheers

Zed

Hey Zed.

I know it works, but it's better if it's done in the apropriate way.

If you don't actually need http parsing and advanced http stuff you don't need the philips library (it has too much stuff in it for simple uses).
I wasn't talking about the socket.close() prontoscript function but about the close in (this is how a http header should look like):

GET / subfolder/subfolder HTTP/1.1[CRLF]
Host: www.google.com[CRLF]
Connection: close[CRLF]
User-Agent: your device[CRLF]
Accept-Encoding: gzip[CRLF]
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,UTF-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7[CRLF]
Cache-Control: no[CRLF]
Accept-Language: de,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3[CRLF]

This is a sample of a http header. Everything else (http data) comes after this. The pronto doesn't need some fields. In the 3rd row you see a Connection: close command. This command tells that the current http connection will be closed after receiving a response.

If you use the pronto to connect to web sites some of the fields are reuired, otherwise your connection might be refused.

A nice tool to study the html headers:
http://web-sniffer.net/

The request for this thread looks like:
Connect to 216.250.177.3 on port 80 ... ok

GET /cgi-bin/mboard/prontopro/thread.cgi?3903 HTTP/1.1[CRLF]
Host: www.remotecentral.com[CRLF]
Connection: close[CRLF]
User-Agent: Web-sniffer/1.0.36 (+http://web-sniffer.net/)[CRLF]
Accept-Encoding: gzip[CRLF]
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,UTF-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7[CRLF]
Cache-Control: no[CRLF]
Accept-Language: de,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3[CRLF]
Referer: http://web-sniffer.net/[CRLF]
[CRLF]

Sorry if it looked like I was getting "on you", didn't mean it like this.

thanks to everybody who helped, i have now got it working, one question that isnt related to pronto but maybe somebody knows if i need to type in to trigger my ip relay (http)://192.168.1.68/state.xml?relayState=2 is there any way i can make the ie windows close after the comand without java script. i have looked at the close.window command but would love to do it via a book mark.

Thanks
Daniel