Need help converting a CURL call to a Tasker HTTP Post Task

[Roberto Fabrizi]

Hello everyone, I've been trying to convert this working wemo switch curl call to a Tasker HTTP Post Task, but sadly I can't seem to do it...

The working call is:

curl -0 -A '' -X POST -H 'Accept: ' -H 'Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8' -H SOAPACTION: "urn:Belkin:service:basicevent:1#GetBinaryState" --data '<?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?><s:Envelope xmlns:s=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ s:encodingStyle=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/><s:Body><u:GetBinaryState xmlns:u=urn:Belkin:service:basicevent:1><BinaryState>1</BinaryState></u:GetBinaryState></s:Body></s:Envelope>' -s http://192.168.1.11:49154/upnp/control/basicevent1

I've created a Http Post that has the following:

Server:Port =192.168.1.11:49154

Path = upnp/control/basicevent1

Data / File = <?xml version=1.0 encoding=utf-8?><s:Envelope xmlns:s=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/ s:encodingStyle=http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/><s:Body><u:GetBinaryState xmlns:u=urn:Belkin:service:basicevent:1><BinaryState>1</BinaryState></u:GetBinaryState></s:Body></s:Envelope>

Content Type = Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" SOAPACTION: "urn:Belkin:service:basicevent:1#GetBinaryState"

But I get an exception when I try to run it:

Input/Output error for http://192.168.1.11:49154/upnp/control/basicevent1: 

java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://192.168.1.11:49154/upnp/control/basicevent1.

Can you help me fix what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you so much!!!

Rob

[Roberto Fabrizi]

Fixed my issues by using this plug in https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freehaha.restask

Much more intuitive than Tasker's default http post.

[Terence Yung]

Hi,

Could you elaborate how did you setup the post request in restask?

I am trying to do send a soap body but don't know where to input the soap body inside REStask.

Thankyou

[Mark H]

I know I'm very late to the party but I thought I'd post my solution here as I got this working a couple of days ago using RESTask and couldn't find the answer elsewhere. Pay special attention to what is and what isn't in speech marks.

NB Obviously you'll need to change the IP address to match your WEMO and check which port it's working on 49152,49153 or 49154 by trial and error. The chrome extension "Boomerang - SOAP & REST Client" is very useful to get it working first before putting it into RESTask

Basic tab:

Request Type: POST

Host: http://192.168.1.15:49154/upnp/control/basicevent1
Enable Custom Body

Custom body:

<?xml version=1.0 encoding="utf-8"?> <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" s:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <s:Body><u:SetBinaryState xmlns:u="urn:Belkin:service:basicevent:1"><BinaryState>1</BinaryState></u:SetBinaryState> </s:Body></s:Envelope>

Headers Tab:

Add the following two

Name: Content-Type

Value: text/xml; charset="utf-8"

Name: SOAPACTION

Value: "urn:Belkin:service:basicevent:1#SetBinaryState"

The above XML turns on the switch. A second consecutive call will fail with an error as it is already switched on, Change the <BinaryState>1</BinaryState> to a 0 if you want to switch it off.

[Sandro M]

Thanks for your post.

Just one note for those lazy guys like me. If you try to copy and paste from this website using the phone browser, the " character gets converted to something else that is not correct due to some font style/formatting.

Here are some screenshots for how it should look like.

[Pent]

You won't be able to specify this bit unfortunately:

-H SOAPACTION: "urn:Belkin:service:basicevent:1#GetBinaryState

I believe there are one or more plugins that let you specify arbitrary request
headers.

Pent