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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/01/2014 08:23 AM, John J Tucker
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The W3C defines a Web service as:<br>
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<font color="#252525"><font color="#252525">I greatly appreciate the
breadth of your reply! </font>In the beginning, there was the
W3C (somewhat)... <br>
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<div><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span
style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In other
words, the DirecTV Set Top Boxes listen on port 8080 for
hypertext transport protocol (http) commands and respond
with formatted messages that tell you what is going on.
Very cool! One can even use a web browser to debug and test
the interface. Just enter</span></font><br>
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I should have been more specific. But looking at the "<font
color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color:
rgb(255, 255, 255);">directtv_http.pl" perl script told me that
"isn't the droid I'm looking for"!<br>
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I can control the Dish Network STB (ViP222k) over IP (both TV1
and TV2, no IR required), but only using the 'upnp' protocol
(miranda.py, yeah, python :).<br>
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I was concerned I missed an emerging 'http' protocol / scripting
machinery that would accomplish the same.<br>
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Regards,<br>
MC<br>
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