Posting core readings to remote webserver

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Hi Guys, first of all: great work, my sparks arrived last week, and now I’m fiddling around!

What I have to do is posting analog readings to my couchdb server…

I did this with my RPi, and played with arduino ethernet shield successfully …

Due to no ethernet available at the target location, i thought spark was the best solution at now.

my target url is only reachable via DNS, not via IP, so I failed while playing with TCPClient…

In ‘curl-speach’ all what I have to do is:

curl -X POST -H “Content-Type: application/json” http://admin:xxxxx@mycouchserver.com:5984/dbname -d ‘{“type”:“emonLog”,“value”:“1234”}’

any hints or ideas?

thx in advance

Pitt

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Theoretically you should be able do this with TCPClient but you’d need to send http headers for the basic authentication.

Read this thread for more info: https://community.spark.io/t/how-to-send-http-post-request-to-a-secure-url/740/5

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Eventually we’ll be implementing a feature where Spark can publish events, and you’ll be able to hit web servers that way. However this feature’s still in progress, and will be a couple more weeks at least

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hi … got it working … see: https://community.spark.io/t/code-not-working-which-runs-well-on-arduino/2089
thx for helping …

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