Accessing API via IP address

[Jan-Willem]

I am running a very basic Arduino IP stack that has no proper DNS
support. I am trying to post to SuperTweet by its IP address, like
this:

http://66.180.175.246/1/statuses/update.xml

But this results in a 404 error. If I use

http://api.supertweet.net/1/statuses/update.xml

All is well. If I browse to the IP address the web server also asks me
about the context I want to use, so it looks like more than one domain
is handled via this IP.

Is there a way to call the API without using the DNS name? A lot of
"dumb" IP stacks called the Twitter API this way so it would help if
your service could handle it as well.

Thanks,

JW

[Mr Blog]

If you're writing the HTTP protocol yourself, just be sure to have a
"Host: api.supertweet.net" header.

[Mr Blog]

By glancing around the web for docs, it looks like it's something like
this on your platform:

(e.g. http://jimmyg.org/blog/2009/arduino.html)

byte server[] = { 66, 180, 175, 246 }; // api.supertweet.net

// Start Cthernet client
Client client(server, 80);

if (client.connect()) {
Serial.println("connected");
client.println("POST /1/statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.0");
client.println("Authorization: Basic {secret}");
client.println("Host: api.supertweet.net");
client.println("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
client.println();
client.println("status=....");

[Jan-Willem]

Bingo - that was the little nudge I needed, now I have success:

Botanicalls v2.21

POST /1/statuses/update.xml HTTP/1.1
Host: api.supertweet.net
Authorization: Basic [secret]
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 28

status=Current Moisture: 0p.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:29:22 GMT
Vary: Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Accept
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Restlet-Framework/2.0snapshot
Content-Length: 2154

The only thing that fails now it that it chokes if I send a "%" as
part of the status, need to html-ize that probably...

[Jan-Willem]

Yep "%25" in stead of "%" and all is well!