[mythtv-users] Frontend services API question

[Phil Bridges]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Frank Phillips <frankalso at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Dan Wilga <
> mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu> wrote:
>
>>  On 3/18/15 3:14 PM, Bill Meek wrote:
>>
>> On 03/18/2015 01:47 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com>
>> <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> I see the same with Firefox.
>>
>> Try it with curl (I thing you're getting cached information.):
>>
>>      curl <BE>:6547/Frontend/GetStatus|sed 's/></>\n</g'
>>
>> The sed is just to make it easier to read.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Thanks.  That did it.  Ifind it a little odd, though, that the Chrome
>> REST
>> tools keep seeing the cached data.
>>
>>
>> It is odd. The 1st response contains an ETag. The 2nd query includes the
>> same ETag (correctly, I believe), but even though the FE screen has
>> changed from Watch Recordings to actual Playback (for my test), the
>> FE returns a 304 Not Modified in the response.
>>
>>  In your browser, you could also try adding a random number to the end,
>> and change it every time you want a new version:
>>
>>   mythbackend:6547/Frontend/GetStatus?foo=12345
>>
>> This technique is often used by Javascript libraries to avoid ornery
>> clients that like to keep old stuff.
>>
>>
> If you POST instead of GET it will give you fresh data each time, no extra
> parameters necessary. You can do this with curl - I am using the Firefox
> RESTClient addon.
>
>
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Thanks - I was doing this with a GET.
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