Android Question Help for httputils2, json and connection for api over http.

[frankinator]

Hi,
I'm really struggling with trying to get this to work. No matter what I try I get errors and fail. I'm wondering if i can get an assist. I have read and tried httputils2 but the connection fails or errors. firewall is down and it works successfully with my vb.net code, so i know it's my approach.
What am i missing? Not SSL btw.

Working VB.net code:

Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
        ' Dim data1 = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{'command': 'summary'}")
        sendCommand("summary")
    End Sub

    Private Sub sendCommand(ByVal command As String)
        Try
            Dim clientSocket As New System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient()
            clientSocket.Connect("192.168.1.72", 4028)
            Dim serverStream As NetworkStream = clientSocket.GetStream()
            Dim outStream As Byte() = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(command)
            serverStream.Write(outStream, 0, outStream.Length)
            serverStream.Flush()

            Dim inStream As Byte() = New Byte(65536) {}
            serverStream.Read(inStream, 0, CInt(clientSocket.ReceiveBufferSize))
            Dim returnData As String = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetString(inStream)
            '  MsgBox(returnData)
            TextBox1.Text = (returnData)
            '  Debug.Print(returnData)
            clientSocket.Close()
        Catch exc As Exception
        End Try
    End Sub

This is just one of my attempts and the error (Error: org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException)
I am not sure if I am just approaching this completely wrong.

    Sub Senddata   
   
  Dim job2 As HttpJob 
    Dim objMap As Map: objMap.Initialize
   
    'Send a POST request
            job2.Initialize("Job2", Me)
            objMap.Put("command","summary")

            Dim objJSon As JSONGenerator: objJSon.Initialize(objMap)
           
            job2.PostString("HTTP://192.168.1.70:4028", objJSon.ToPrettyString(2))
            job2.GetRequest.SetContentType("application/json")
   
       
    End Sub

At this point I've been trying for a few days and I got nowhere.
Any help or code hints would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[DonManfred]

job2.PostString does send a POST-request to the server.
What serversoftware is on the other side which recieves the data?

Is the destination able to handle html-form-data posted by GET or POST?

 

[frankinator]

This is a statement from the docs.

"
it will listen on a
simple TCP/IP socket for single string API requests from the same machine
running cgminer and reply with a string and then close the socket each time
If you add the "--api-network" option, it will accept API requests from any
network attached computer."

It's an application and I'm pretty sure its custom and not really a webserver.
I did try other ways e.g. download, download2 as outlined in some of the samples.

I just wanted to post at least one of my failures as a sample, but I'm open to any possibilities to connect.

In the .net code i posted, it's just hitting a socket not really html.
Again, I'm probably wayoff with my b4a approach, but I don't know what i don't know.

thx

 

[frankinator]

Funny.... By you asking about the webserver it got me thinking....I wonder if I am approaching this all wrong. I just found this thread http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/th...ut-cant-get-text-back.16563/page-2#post-96933

and I modded the ip in the sample and it connected and responded so I'm going to chase that rabbit down the hole and see how i make out.