MooSock and PHP problem...

Hello everybody,

I have a ccn application that sends results of a test to a php script that's suppose to write down these results on a file on the server. For many computers, it works fine. But for many others, (mostly from my clients :cry: )it doesn't. Instead, the ccn application receive this kind of message:

[color:#000099]"HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request (Invalid Verb)"[/color]

or

[color:#000099]"Bad Request"
"Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Invalid URl in request ?filename=rezu.csv&password=accesspw&donne e=results,1,1,2,2HTTP/1.0"[/color]

I use a Get method:

Send Text "GET " + "http://mysite.go" + "/this/donnees/myscript.php"
Send Text"?filename="
Send Text"rezu.csv"
Send Text"&password="
Send Text"ecpelpw"
Send Text"&donnee="
Send TextEdittext("edit")
Send Text"HTTP/1.0..."

Does somebody know what's going on?

Many thanks in advance!

Michel Bastien

It looks like you're missing a space or two, specifically one between GET and http, so the server is seeing GEThttp and going "I don't know what a GEThttp command is" (aka, bad verb).

Ok?

EDIT: I think you might be missing a space between the url and HTTP/1.0 as well

Missing a space: well, no. I made a mistake when I wrote down the lines here: there is a space between the GET and the http in the application.

Also, if there was a problem with a space, it would not work at all, wouldn't it? But the MooSock communication always work with some computers and the server and never with some others!

Some servers are very picky on the headers your sending.
It must completely conform to the http specs are they will reject them as spam/dos or some other attack.

I would use "Send text line" rather than "Send text" - otherwise it looks like your lines are going to run into each other. The "HTTP1.0" is being stuck on to the end of your Results field.

Send text line "GET [the entire URL]"
Send text line "From: blah@nowhere.com"
Send text line "User-Agent: HTTPTool/1.0" (or similar)
Send text line ""
Disconnect

I said this because of your message from the server that said "?filename=rezu.csv&password=accesspw&donn ee=results,1,1,2,2HTTP/1.0", managing to miss the page name out of the url (suggests that you missed a space between get and the page name) and it's welded HTTP/1.0 to the end, suggesting that you missed a space there too.

If you'd like to post your code (as in the actual file) I'm sure we could figure out what was wrong.

Yes, I well examine the spaces in my command lines carefully.

And I will try the Send text line commands too.

I will send my code as in the actual file in a few moments.

But can you take a look at the message from the server again: between values, I see "&" but my app's instructions just send the "&". Could it be that some computers are mistakingly interpreting my ampersand character?

(And, btw, if you type an ampersand in, will it look like mine?)

I did wonder about the & characters - I think it might be the error reporting bit of code interpreting them, though I'm not sure.

There: you can take a look to my code:

To my message in the File Forum

About the ampersand: yes, I use a French-Canadian keyboard and it would not be the first time I have a problem with special characters like this and some MMF functions. (If somebody knows a way around...) And it would maybe explain why my app works on some computers (those with a French-Canadian keyboard setting) and not with others (those with an English setting)...

Ok, it works for me, and I have a uk keyboard setting. I get "HTTP/1.1 200 OK". I tried it against my own web server and I get "HTTP/1.1 404" (not found) but that's right because I don't have your script on my server.

It's worth remembering that you're not supposed to send the web address as part of the url, you should really send it is a header, like this:
GET /page/?data HTTP/1.1
Host: xyz.site.com

also, you shouldn't actually send the http:// bit either. Perhaps the people it's failing for are behind a transparent proxy / router of some kind which is not liking your non-standard request?