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Postman offers free (small-project) API developer tools – Open Source Insider

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/19

Cool: [WayBack] Postman offers free (small-project) API developer tools – Open Source Insider.

I’ve used the [Archive.is] Postman – Chrome Web Store for HTTP/HTTPS API testing using various REST services. It’s awesome even though unlike the postmanlabs/postman-chrome-extension-legacy: Postman REST Client Chrome Extension (Legacy Version) it’s not open source any more as it now can run server side and has an API of itself [WayBack].

Get it at [WayBack] Postman | Supercharge your API workflow. Available for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Chrome users.

–jeroen

Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, REST, SOAP/WebServices, Software Development, TCP | 2 Comments »

Some ChromeCast URLs

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/01

I need to check these against a Chromecast v2 as the below URLs are from a v1 device:

More is possible by using cURL: Chromecast Hacking Has Begun | fiquett.com

sleep 8h; while true; do
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://192.168.71.113:8008/apps/YouTube -X POST -d 'v=somevideo';
done

Related:

–jeroen

via:

Thoughts on a Chromecast Alarm app?
byu/akhilcacharya inChromecast

Posted in Chromecast, Communications Development, Development, Google, Hardware Interfacing, HTTP, https, Internet protocol suite, REST, Security, TCP | 3 Comments »

Some notes and links on hacking a Philips TVs TCP ports

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/01/25

In my case this is about a Philips 42PFL7676H TV, but this likely applies to many Philips TVs from the 2009-2012 era.

According to nmap, these ports are open:

PORT STATE SERVICE REASON VERSION
1925/tcp open unknown syn-ack
2323/tcp open 3d-nfsd? syn-ack
49153/tcp open upnp syn-ack Philips Intel UPnP SDK 1.4 (Philips Smart TV; UPnP 1.0; DLNADOC 1.50)

TCP port 1925 is actually implementing the jointSPACE REST API over HTTP which has some nice documentation (also locally on your TV).

PCremote implements this and is easy to install: just download (or git clone) the html locally or to a web-server and try it, or even easier: browse to the www.netdata.be/tv site. You can even use it on your Raspberry Pi. There is also support for jointSPACE it in agocontrol.

Two nice threads about it from the Philips support forum:

TCP port 2323 seems to be the voodooport which should enable you to do DirectFB Voodoo.

Jean-Marc Harvengt (software engineer at Philips) showed a nice demo (see video below) on using VooDoo. I wish he had published the source code.

TCP port 49153 also hosts an HTTP server. The base URL I could find information about is 192.168.71.115:49153/nmrDescription.xml It seems that nmrDescription.xml has to do with DLNA and upnp.

Later on I found that my brothers 32PFL7675H TV should also support JointSPACE, but that it had to be activated:

AFTER upgrading to the new firmware, jointSPACE NEEDS TO BE ACTIVATED by entering the following digits sequence while watching TV (WatchTV activity): “5646877223”

Source: jointSPACE TVs Developers

Before activation, only port was open 49153. After that, port 2323 was open as well. But the www.netdata.be/tv app doesn’t work on this TV. This does work however: Philips MyRemote – Android Apps on Google Play

–jeroen

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Writing tests for http / https request: Postman, SoapUI, Advanced REST client.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/21

I’m using these Chrome Extensions for most of the http / https call mockups, and after that put them in SoapUI (which despite the name also does REST and has come a long way sinceSource: SoupUI – as sometimes that is the only thing that works):

You can get both Postman versions through GetPostman.com as well.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET, C#, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Chrome, Communications Development, Development, Google, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, Power User, REST, Software Development, TCP | 1 Comment »

Using httpbin to test http/https requests

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/15

StackOverflow user Kenneth Reitz has written a great on-line and free httpbin tool that responds to many kinds of http/https requests including the standaard http request methods (or verbs) used by REST: get, post (for http 1.0) and patch, put, delete (for http 1.1).

These verbs are not supported: head (http 1.0) and trace, options, connect (http 1.1).

The site is geared towards JSON (as most the responses are in JSON, except for one XML response and a few TEXT responses), but even if your environment does not use JSON, it is very useful as you basically get an echo of information on what you pass to it.

Except one endpoint (/encoding/utf8), none of the response encodings can be determined by the request. This is a pity as sometimes it is good to see how a specific encoding works for JSON, but it is very hard to support encodings well, so I can understand the support is not there (or not there yet).

There are many examples on the site, which I won’t list.

There are at least two sites hosting them. The original supports HTTP and HTTPS only, but the ngHttp2 people also support HTTP2 and SPDY:

What I do list are the endpoints as copied from the site on 20141228:

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OData: a few notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/03/12

You can’t keep track of the whole world, so every now and then I bump into something and think “boy I wish I had known about this years ago”.

The OData (Open Data Protocol) standard by Microsoft is such a thing. It allows to communicate data over the internet in a RESTful way using either JSON or AtomPub based XML, standardized by OASIS who has it’s roots in the SGML world (SGML is one of the predecessors of XML).

There is a rich Ecosystem of implementations in many platforms (including .NET, Delphi, Java, PHP, JavaScript, etc) with public reachable Example Services to test with (not surprising there is a NorthWind service).

Here are a few links of stuff I want to dig deeper into it to grasp it better: Read the rest of this entry »

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Mockable: Quickly create REST and SOAP mocks

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/28

Thanks Wiebe Elsingae for sharing a link to this:

Test your application with ease

Create REST and SOAP services which mimic your external providers.

Easy to use Create one mock in three secondsMockable is a simple configurable service to mock out RESTful API or SOAP web-services. This online service allows you to quickly define REST API or SOAP endpoints and have them return JSON or XML data.

Maybe the nicest feature: Try now (no sign-up required).

–jeroen

via: Mockable: Quickly create REST and SOAP mocks.

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A url or site like example.org which always produces a 404 error (and two for 200 and 204)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/10

Yesterday I posted this question on StackOverflow and G+: Is there a url or site like example.org which always produces a 404 error?

Soon after that, I found out three links that produce predictable HTTP status codes:

They also work for https:

Edit 20241223: these also return a 404: http://www.google.com/undefined and https://www.google.com/undefined

On StackOverflow very few people even noticed the question, probably wondering “why?”.

I’m using these links for positive and negative testing of some http / https handling code that needs to be good at coping with positive and negative responses.

In my testing life, I’ve learned the hard way that both negative and positive tests are core part of your suite, hence the question.

–jeroen

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Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, Chrome, Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, Power User, REST, Software Development, TCP, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

ADAP Open Source REST API Layer For LDAP | Dr Dobb’s

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/06

Interesting, as this opens LDAP server to a lot more tools and development environments: ADAP Open Source REST API Layer For LDAP | Dr Dobb’s.

–jeroen

Posted in Communications Development, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSON, LDAP, Power User, REST, Scripting, Security, Software Development, TCP, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Brilliant: JSONView (via: Chrome Web Store, there is a FireFox extension too)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/05

Thanks Michael Panzer – Google+! I agree it should be available out of the box.

Brilliant way to view JSON and test for validity.

JSONView

Validate and view JSON documents

JSONView port for Chrome.

Original firefox extension is here: http://benhollis.net/software/jsonview/ Read the rest of this entry »

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