ESP8266 / Mbed 2 deprecated ESP8266_HTTP_HelloWorld

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

  1. change ssid and passphrase to match your wifi connection
  2. Initialize ESP8266 with DHCP enabled
  3. Get mbed.org
    1. Print the information retrieved
  4. Post to httbin.org
    1. 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. /media/uploads/mbedAustin/httpclient.png

main.cpp

Committer:
sarahmarshy
Date:
2015-06-09
Revision:
18:3209e51b731a
Parent:
17:59097e8b5c60

File content as of revision 18:3209e51b731a:

#include "mbed.h"
#include "HTTPClient.h"
#include "ESP8266Interface.h"
#include "TCPSocketConnection.h"
#include "Websocket.h"

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];
int main()
{
    pc.baud(9600);
    wifi.init(); //Reset
    wifi.connect(); //Use DHCP
    
    //GET
    pc.printf("\nTrying to fetch page using GET...\n\r");
    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);
    } else {
        pc.printf("Error - ret = %d - HTTP return code = %d\n\r", ret, http.getHTTPResponseCode());
    }
    //POST
    HTTPMap map;
    HTTPText inText(str, 512);
    map.put("Hello", "World");
    map.put("test", "1234");
    printf("\nTrying to POST data to httpbin.org/post...\n\r");
    ret = http.post("http://54.175.222.246/post", map, &inText);//IP address is httpbin.org/post
    if (!ret)
    {
      printf("Executed POST successfully - read %d characters\n\r", strlen(str));
      printf("Result: %s\n\r", str);
    }
    else
    {
      printf("Error - ret = %d - HTTP return code = %d\n\r", ret, http.getHTTPResponseCode());
    }

}