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HTTP Client with ESP8266 working example
Dependencies: ESP8266Interface HTTPClient-SSL WebSocketClient mbed-rtos mbed
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Introduction
This is a basic Hello World program for interfacing the ESP8266 chip with HTTP. It will execute a GET on httpbin.org/get, and a POST to httpbin.org/post.
ESP8266_HTTP_HelloWorld
- change ssid and passphrase to match your wifi connection
- Initialize ESP8266 with DHCP enabled
- Get mbed.org
- Print the information retrieved
- Post to httbin.org
- Print the information retrieved
You can view the information retrieved through a serial terminal set to 9600 baud.
Successful Execution
you should see something like the following on the terminal if the program successfully executes.
Diff: main.cpp
- Revision:
- 17:59097e8b5c60
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diff -r e3d152c9f6e0 -r 59097e8b5c60 main.cpp --- a/main.cpp Mon Jun 08 17:48:22 2015 +0000 +++ b/main.cpp Tue Jun 09 16:31:03 2015 +0000 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ #include "TCPSocketServer.h" #include "Websocket.h" -ESP8266Interface wifi(D1,D0,D2,"demossid","",115200); // TX,RX,Reset,SSID,Password,Baud +ESP8266Interface wifi(D1,D0,D2,"demossid","password",115200); // TX,RX,Reset,SSID,Password,Baud RawSerial pc(USBTX, USBRX); // tx, rx HTTPClient http; char str[512]; @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ //GET pc.printf("\nTrying to fetch page using GET...\n\r"); - int ret = http.get("http://191.239.57.70/", str, 128);//IP address is mbed.org + int ret = http.get("http://54.175.222.246/get", str, 512);//IP address is httpbin.org/get if (!ret) { pc.printf("Page fetched successfully - read %d characters\n\r", strlen(str)); pc.printf("Result: %s\n\r", str);