Alternative TCPSocket example using an HTTP GET to read a short "helloworld" text web page using a different server
Fork of ARMs demo HTTP socket demo. ARM's server was redirected and the demo was no longer working. An alternative server was setup and the code was modified to display the web page text in addition to just "200 OK". Only works for a very short web page - buffer only 400 characters but RAM is running out on the LPC1768 in the demo! Data read from the web page is read and parsed to control the mbed's 4 LEDs for a basic IoT demo.
Diff: main.cpp
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- 6:9cf6630fa25d
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- 5:66c4a71d22e9
--- a/main.cpp Mon Feb 15 18:19:25 2021 +0000 +++ b/main.cpp Wed Feb 17 18:55:05 2021 +0000 @@ -1,15 +1,16 @@ #include "mbed.h" #include "EthernetInterface.h" - +BusOut leds(LED1,LED2,LED3,LED4); //LEDs are controlled by web page text data // Network interface EthernetInterface net; // Socket demo -int main() { +int main() +{ // Show MAC in case it is needed to enable DHCP on a secure network char mac[6]; mbed_mac_address(mac); - printf("\r\rmbed's MAC address is %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n\r", mac[0], mac[1], mac[2], mac[3], mac[4], mac[5]); + printf("\r\rmbed's MAC address is %02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n\r", mac[0], mac[1], mac[2], mac[3], mac[4], mac[5]); // Bring up the ethernet interface printf("Waiting for IP address from DHCP Server\n\r"); wait(1.0); @@ -35,11 +36,21 @@ char rbuffer[400]; //enough for a very short text page - almost out of RAM! int rcount = socket.recv(rbuffer, sizeof rbuffer); rbuffer[rcount] = 0; //terminate to print as a C string; + //Print packet read from HTTP web page server printf("recv %d [%.*s]\n\r", rcount, strstr(rbuffer, "\r\n"), rbuffer); // Close the socket to return its memory and bring down the network interface socket.close(); + // Basic IoT demo controlling mbeds 4 LEDs from Internet web page's ASCII text data + // Web page demo contains a line "Data:0101" + char *data; + data = strstr(rbuffer,"Data:"); //Find Data: line on web page with '0's or '1's + data = data + 5; //Skip to data + for (int i=0; i<=3; i++) //Parse 4 web page characters to control LEDs + leds[i] = data[i] - '0'; //convert ASCII '0' or '1's to binary to control 4 leds + //Another device could change the web page contents to control LEDs from anywhere + // Bring down the ethernet interface net.disconnect(); printf("Done\n\r");