WEBSET Example

[basilio]

not sure what I am doing wrong, all I am trying to do is hit this URL every minute.
 
http://hit-counter.info/hit.php?id=783383
 
PLC :
WEBSET URL1 783383
DELAY 60000
 
URL1 Notify :
1st Field : hit-counter.info
2nd Field : /hit.php?id=
3rd Field Left Blank
 
 
Thanks again

 

[CAI_Support]

Your first field must have IP address and port, following by a colon then your virtual host name, exactly formatted  like the example on the GUI screen. 
Your second field is okay.
Your 3rd field should contains user name and password on your server.  Leave blank only when your server does not need them. 
 
Also, your server CGI must process GET, not POST.

 

[basilio]

WC IP address ?
 
the link is for an html counter, and I think it does process GET - but I could be wrong
 

 

[CAI_Support]

The IP address is whatever the server IP address, it can be your hosted server or another WebControl board, or another device. Even your hosted server has no dedicate IP address, you can still using this feature.
 
First of all, you need to identify your server's IP address.  You can do that by open a DOS windows and ping your server, DOS windows will display the IP address it being resolved.  For most hosted server, the port will be 80.  For example, if ping your server, www.mydomin.com, DOS windows displayed IP address 12,23,34,56,  then you have the IP address.  Please note, mydomain.com is just an example, whatever your domain name, please use that instead.  For example, you want to use www.hit-counter.info as your domain, and you will get its IP address 108.162.196.176
 
Second, with that information, please enter into the first field:
108.162.196.176:80:www.hit-counter.info
 
If your server name has no www, you can get rid that www. part.  Please note the colon is required to separate each field, there is no space in between.

 

[az1324]

Why are both IP and domain name required?  DNS used by default unless the lookup fails?

 

[rossw]

Why are both IP and domain name required?  DNS used by default unless the lookup fails?

 
The dotted-quad appears to be required - it doesn't appear that the WC does a DNS lookup for whatever reason.
The FQDN (hostname) is required because most hosting these days is http 1.1 which requires the client include the hostname in the http request header so that "name based" servers on a single IP address know which domain to serve.

 

[az1324]

Which is strange because the email client does a DNS lookup so the function is there. 

 

[CAI_Support]

Because DNS resolve requires RAM that we don't have.  The TCP stack requires caller to allocate memory to store temporary information. EMAIL implemented when we still have RAM to allocate.

 

[az1324]

Since webset and email can't happen at the same time why can't they share the ram?

 

[basilio]

ooh man, not sure this is going to work for me :mellow:
 
my web host does change the IP address since my site point to their DNS its never a problem,
 
maybe in the future we could just use the domain name ?
 
Thanks much guys for all you help
 

 

[CAI_Support]

WC32 does not have this memory limitation.  However, with WC8, when resolve the name, it has to held the intermediate result due to DNS server may not reply immediately,  that requires at least 64bytes of RAM till resolve completed.  We can look in the future to inter lock the email and WEBSET, so that during WEBSET, email will be held off momentarily.