Configuring the Spinneret as a Client to submit password to a local network router?

Beau Schwabe

Ok first steps first... I have a Spinneret Client program that I can make requests to other servers outside of my network, and I can also direct it to my own router on the local network and get a response.

What I would like to do is submit the required router password from a Spinneret. So in other words is there a trick to embed a password in the URL tag line that I can append to ... 192.168.0.1 ... and gain router access from a Spinneret within the TCP.SendStr command?

Attached is a bare bones Spinneret Client file that just makes a page GET request to the local router (server) and displays the result via the Parallax Serial Terminal.

Mike G

If it's Basic Authentication, which it probably is, then you need to base-64 encrypt the username and password and sent the info in the Authentication header. Here's an example.
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/142919-Roll-Your-Own-Basic-Authentication

I don't think the old username and password in the URL is accepted much anymore.

Mike G

The attached should work if the Spinneret is attached to a DHCP router. You'll have to enter the base-64 encoded username:password in the Authorization: Basic header. Plus set the IP and port of the router.

  basicAuthReq  byte  "GET / HTTP/1.1", CR, LF, {
}               byte  "Host: 192.168.1.1", CR, LF, {
}               byte  "User-Agent: Wiz5200", CR, LF, {
}               byte  "Authorization: Basic **encrypted**", CR, LF, CR, LF, $0

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PRI GetRouterPage | bytesToRead, buffer, bytesSent, receiving, totalBytes 
  buffer := sock.Init(0, TCP, 8080)
  sock.RemoteIp(192, 168, 1, 1)  
  sock.RemotePort(80)