Question re: HTTP::retry
I have an embedded webserver on a device in my network and am working on a rule to basically by-pass the login screen.
The trick with the login process is that it collects a username and a p...
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I may be up against a badly written TCP stack and/or HTTP server. I've come across some other threads out there regarding this embedded device and there are some fairly uniform complaints about things Just Not Working. For sanity checking, I've wrapped my POST request in a shell script with nc and am still not making much in the way of progress. Real work calls again soon, so I'll need to putz around with this as I have time. This thread: Click Here
...describes someone struggling with a Dell-branded version of the same firmware. He's working with what looks like a slightly more recent version of the code. His error and POST string are different than mine, but the back-end looks to be pretty similar.
Anyway, it just goes to show you: there's still plenty of wacky stuff out there. If nothing else, this exercise has renewed my passing interest in embedded systems and The Internet of Things. (Click Here)