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[jamesmason]

I'm currently writing a Java Application that remotely controls my Roku. I found this website and used it to control my Roku. From Chromes developer tools i watched its data traffic and found the html request that controlled the Roku. The Header was this.

POST /keydown/Play HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.xxx.x.82:8060
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 0
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Origin: http://remoku.tv
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.110 Safari/537.36
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Referer: http://remoku.tv/
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
I then tried to recreate this POST request within Java and it ended up looking like this:

HttpURLConnection urlConn;
URL url = new URL("html://192.xxx.x.82:8060/keydown/Play");
urlConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

urlConn.setRequestProperty("Connection", "keep-alive");
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", "0");
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Cache-Control", "max-age=0");
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8");
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Origin", "http://192.xxx.x.254");
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Upgrade-Insecure-Requests", "1");
urlConn.setRequestProperty("User-Agent","Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.110 Safari/537.36");
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); 
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Referer", "http://192.xxx.x.254");
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate");
urlConn.setRequestProperty("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.8");
I'm not 100% sure this is the correct way to recreate the request because it does not have the same effect as the the original (working). However, this may be because I changed a few minor details that may have actually be important. So my question to you is if this the correct way to recreate a request and if it is why is it not working? If not what is? Any help is appreciated

[jeffrok]

I'd post this in the Developer's forum instead.

[belltown]

Most of those properties you're setting are unnecessary. The one thing you do need that you're missing is setRequestMethod("POST"). I don't do Java, so there may be other issues with your code.

Also, instead of using Chrome Developer Tools to determine the Roku interface, why not read the documentation: https://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/External+Control+API

[kaduswapnali456]

I agree with belltown.

[destruk]

Roku also has a bunch of free tools here - http://devtools.web.roku.com/
RemoteRoku is the first on the left, Deeplinker allows you to add fields in addition to contentID and Mediatype too.
I don't think their tools allow much interaction (if any) with customizing headers in requests there, but they shouldn't be needed except for perhaps the video playback tester tool, which includes a headers tab.
As for creating a header in the channel app, use AddHeader

[norcaljohnny]

If you set on using chromes developer tools, may I suggest right clicking on the data you are referring to and "copy as curl"