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tboneus
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15 years ago

Possible pointers for authorization of local device

Probably way off base here but I am trying to communicate with a WDTV Live so that the actions on the Roku can control the other device. I have the code working on the WDTV from a web browser so I jus...
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RokuKevin
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15 years ago
You need to figure out what kind of authorization WDTV is using... You've described a method for Basic authorization, but it may be something different. I'd take a wireshark trace of your browser interacting with WDTV and then emulate the same traffic using the Roku as the client.

If you are using SSL, try to turn that requirement off before taking your wireshark trace so that you can analyze the requests...

--Kevin