I am working through CONTROL LEDS OVER THE ‘NET example right now. I can get it to work using cURL from Cygwin (I’m on a Windows 7 PC). I thought I’d be able to access the REST API directly from my browser, but I am getting an "access token not found error. I’m assuming my URL (below) is malformed. …

Hi @Dave , I’m using a REST client called, well, RestClient (a Firefox add-on) and sending as POST. Here is the response… Status Code: 200 OK Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 121 Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:36:54 GMT …

Hi @RickSanson , Hmm… If curl is working and the other methods aren’t, I’m guessing there is some problem with the request itself. In your earlier post you mentioned you were using the url: https://api.spark.io/v1/devices/123456789etc/led?access_token=123456789etc&args=l0,HIGH1 Make sure you’re …

Just as a follow-up Here is a php script that handles auth and arguments <?php $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://api.spark.io/v1/devices/my_device_ID_here/led"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "access_token=my_access_toke…

Ok, I try again I have written a simple webpage using Javascript and Jquery to control the LEDs on Do an D1 I have run it on my WAMP on my computer and also uploaded it to my webpage and it works. [image] Thank you to http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp for helping me learn Javascript and J…

[image] PDP11: Oops, can't work how to upload code, please see image You can post code in the preformatted text block (use the < / >) icon to insert the quote character. Or you can post your code in something like pastebin.com and insert a link. Dave O

You can use the Chrome extension called “Rest Console” The POST should look like this. [image] After that, provide your parameters on the Request Body. Make sure to select the proper content-type as application/x-www-form-urlencoded [image] Click on the POST button and wait for your response. …

Hi Dorth Thank you for your help. I used Pastebin and a link to my code is here: http://pastebin.com/ZA22CGKn Dave

I don’t know if this is any help to anyone, but I too had quite a struggle passing a String parameter to a Spark function. I could get it to work from the command line, but not sending my hand crafted HTTP POST request. I can cope with a bit of JavaScript but I’m not really up to speed with JQuery o…

It works nice Dave, thank you so much, didn’t notice that we need a POST method to call the function :smiley:

I’ll log a bug for that and see if we can’t make it accept both, having to set a non-json content-type header is a bit too inconvenient for my taste. :slight_smile: Thanks, David

Call REST API directly from browser

bko November 10, 2015, 7:50pm 28

Please read this thread:

Curl or postman are both great alternatives.

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Call REST API directly from browser

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