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shibuyashadows
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9 years ago

roUrlEvent headers but no response body

I am trying to http long poll a connection using a roUrlTransfer object, however it won't return a response body either synchronously or asynchronously.

I am calling AsyncGetString() then I can see from the header in the roUrlEvent that there is a response content-length: 24 so the response should be there.

<Component: roAssociativeArray> =
{
    access-control-allow-origin: "*"
    connection: "keep-alive"
    content-length: "24"
    content-type: "application/octet-stream"
    date: "Thu, 15 Dec 2016 08:50:01 GMT"
    set-cookie: "io=CFic4Wcp-sZN-o-JAAAQ; Path=/; HttpOnly"
}

(the response should be ÿ42["message","ok then"])

any ideas why it doesn't get filled? .GetString() on the roUrlEvent returns blank

Cheers
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5 Replies

  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    "shibuyashadows" wrote:
    (the response should be ÿ42["message","ok then"])

    What is this "ÿ" character you are using? Is it the two octets \xC3 \xBF (proper UTF8)?
    len('42["message","ok then"]') = 23, so it seems that there is only 1 octet...

    I am particularly suspicious of it because the symbol i see in my browser (y umlaut) has a code point U+00FF and if you transmitted that as a single byte \0xFF, nothing good will come out of it. 
  • shibuyashadows's avatar
    shibuyashadows
    Visitor
    9 years ago
    Thanks for the reply!

    The request itself is to a node.js socket.io socket, on which i call:

    socket.emit('message', 'ok then');


    the message is transmitted as ) (copied from running the same request in chrome and looking at the response body)

    i wonder if i should be using an roStreamSocket for this?
  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    "shibuyashadows" wrote:
    The request itself is to a node.js socket.io socket, on which i call:

    umm, i don't know what the wire protocol of socket.io is... doesn't it use websockets? Roku doesn't do websockets.

    the message is transmitted as ) (copied from running the same request in chrome and looking at the response body)

    copy&paste from console can be misleading, can you get a hex dump of this - maybe WireShark/sniff the packet?

    i wonder if i should be using an roStreamSocket for this?

    nah. if worse comes to worst, you may have to use AsyncGetToFile() and then read that into roByteArray. <cringe>
  • shibuyashadows's avatar
    shibuyashadows
    Visitor
    9 years ago
    socket.io will use websockets if available, if not it will use polling.

    In any case I was overthinking this, I abandoned trying to use socket.io and moved to traditional long polling with a message queue at the back-end and AsyncGetString calls in a message loop on the Roku side. Works a treat.

    Cheers
  • EnTerr's avatar
    EnTerr
    Roku Guru
    9 years ago
    Ah, bummer - so we may never know the mystery of "ÿ"  :mrgreen:

    Make sure to use UTF8 encoding and no \0 (NUL) bytes and you are golden