[TriLUG] seeking WGET assistance, maybe LYNX is the answer ??

[Dave Sorenson]

Is there a web link to said device? It sounds interesting.

DS 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Turnpike Man
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 9:30 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] seeking WGET assistance, maybe LYNX is the answer ??

ok, I have the timestamp back in the telnet continuous stream and in the
httpget *SRT and *SRH for temp and humidity respectively.  (Hidden switch
that got reset during our troubleshooting yesterday.)

--- Turnpike Man <turnpike420 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I spent about 45 mins yesterday on the phone with a tech support 
> person for this device, and at one point he brought on one of the
programmers.
> Unfortunately, had the programmer actually been paying attention as 
> opposed to just being there to make customer service seem better, I 
> might have gotten somewhere with the device... maybe.
> 
> Interestingly enough, their little HTTPGET.exe proggy is somewhat of a 
> missnomer.  I don't think it is truely doing an HTTP GET, opposite of 
> HTTP POST.  However, it kinda is, because the "iServer" embedded web 
> device is what is supposed to respond.  At any rate, the winsock crap 
> is not anything I need to worry about anymore, I think I learned more 
> about that and it's just a Windows method of doing TCP/IP 
> communication.
> 
> Tom put in some interesting python code, again, python, perl, and 
> anything outside of HTML, PHP, SQL are greek to me.  However, I'm 
> still open to such options.
> 
> Latest news is... the "continuous mode" in which I can connect via 
> telnet and get a data stream of temp, humidity, dewpoint, time, temp, 
> humidity, dewpoint, time, etc... has lost the time part, only spewing 
> t, h, d now.  So I'm working with those folks to get that right.  In 
> the end, I guess I only need collect my computer timestamp and not 
> worry about the device timestamp when using the streamed data.  There 
> is also "command mode" in which I can connect via telnet and 'paste' 
> the "*SRT" command to get temp and timestamp back.  I dunno why paste 
> must be used instead of typing the command, but that's telnet for ya I 
> guess.  However, now this only reports temp and no timestamp either.
> 
> Fortunately timestamping on the internal logging of the device is 
> fine, it's just not spewing it to me when I send it telnet or 
> httpget.exe commands anymore.
> 
> Found out my WGET is 1.8.2-15.3 in FC1, not recent enough to include 
> --post-data=STRING option.
> 
> Also, the -r means NO HTTP headers in their httpget.exe proggy... it's 
> a raw mode of connection that I think support says won't work if you 
> include any HTTP header communication.
> 
> still pluggin away,
> David M.
> 
> 
> --- erik at underhanded.org wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 12:30:05PM -0700, Turnpike Man wrote:
> > > I am connecting to a temp/humidity device with embedded web 
> > > server.  It
> > comes
> > > with a win32 based HTTPGET.exe proggy that has 2 switches in it 
> > > that I
> > need,
> > > but I don't want to use win32, plus the alarm portion requires 
> > > Outlook to
> > be
> > > installed with a working profile on the monitoring machine, which 
> > > would
> be
> > a
> > > server and I don't wanna do that.
> > > 
> > > So it would seem WGET would be a Linux replacement I could find 
> > > such
> > switches
> > > in, but I'm having not so good luck.  Here's the description of 
> > > the WGET switches I'm seeking:
> > > 
> > > 1.  raw mode (no HTTP headers)  {-r in HTTPGET} 2.  POST string to 
> > > URL  {-S in HTTPGET}
> > > 
> > > Then I'm going to append the results onto to a txt file, or better 
> > > yet,
> to
> > a
> > > database where I add a new row each time I grab results.  Maybe 
> > > LYNX is
> > another
> > > possible solution??
> > > 
> > > The HTTPGET get proggy sends a command like this to retrieve output:
> > > httpget -r -S "*SRT\r" ip.ad.dr.es:1000 (where \r = carriage 
> > > return termination character)
> > 
> > (found with wget --help)
> > 
> > GNU Wget 1.9.1
> > -s,  --save-headers        save the HTTP headers to file.
> > --post-data=STRING    use the POST method; send STRING as the data.
> > --post-file=FILE      use the POST method; send contents of FILE.
> > 
> > 
> > I don't believe wget saves headers by default (need to use -s), may 
> > want to
> 
> > check if you have wierd options in a wgetrc.  I tend to just specify 
> > everything on the commandline.
> 
> 
> 
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