Brain melt.......encode url - how to ?

[AutoFrank 370]

Hi,

I am leveraging a bridge to interact with my sonos systems

 

The command to invoke is simple....

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but if I want to have more than one word i need to separate them with a %20 in the url ..like

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Now if I drop the following url into a browser (note space between 'hi' and 'there')

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It works !!!...

..but if i use it in a scene it doesn't

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I had this working from a scene before so I asked the developer of the sonos bridge and he said ..

 

 

 

That's regular url encoding. Most browsers will convert that transparently when writing a URL, but if you invoke it from a script or similar, you need to do that, and always had to (unless the script url encode automatically).

 

the last part is the important bit.....so my question is how can I get the http request in the scene to invoke the url so I don't have to add the %20 as spaces

I tried a number of options but can only seem to find a way to encode headers or data but not the url

 

I am 99% sure I had this working but in a recent overzealous clean up of my code I must have deleted the sample code that worked for me.

 

Could anybody help ?

 

Thanks

-Frank

 

[boerremk 83]

try this function:

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[tinman 985]

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function urlencode(str)

  if (str) then

      str = string.gsub (str, "([^%w])",

      function (c) return string.format ("%%%02X", string.byte(c)) end)

  end

  return str 

end

[AutoFrank 370]

Thanks folks,

 

I'll give them a go

 

-F

[AutoFrank 370]

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okay - must be missing something here

looking to encode the string "the cat sat" to "the%20cat%20sat"

 

Whats not right here ?

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and I'm getting the following output

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[boerremk 83]

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local message = "the cat sat on the mat"

fibaro:debug("original message = " .. message)

function urlencode(s)

if (s) then

s = string.gsub (s, "\n", "\r\n")

s = string.gsub (s, "([^%w ])",

function (c) return string.format ("%%%02X", string.byte(c)) end)

s = string.gsub (s, " ", "+")

end

return s

end

test = urlencode(message)

fibaro:debug("encoded message = " .. test)

[AutoFrank 370]

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Thanks Remko

 

I thought I could use the same variable after it's encoded but looks like you can't

much appreciated 

 

-F

[tinman 985]

of course you can, just do

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[boerremk 83]

 

of course you can, just do

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Yep, but then it was less clear what the issue was

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[AutoFrank 370]

Yep, but then it was less clear what the issue was

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might have been my fat fingers

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thanks for the help

-F