Friday, July 30, 2010

I Was Finally Successful with Work Chumby Hookup

As I reported previously, the capture page at work was difficult to break into.  Up until this moment I had not been able to use our guest wireless access (requiring a user name and password) which is Cisco based.  It turns out that the problem was the value that I was returning for the buttonSelected parameter. Should you feel inclined, the best way to find out what a capture page requires is to capture the POST message before it gets back to the server.  For this I used "Tamper Data" on Firefox.  What I was able to do was to see the values for each of the parameters prior to its receipt by the wireless port.  I found out that in this particular instance the buttonSelected parameter was 4.  As soon as I corrected the value in the debugchumby file on my USB drive the Chumby hooked up.  Now I can use the Chumby as advertised at work.  I wanted to make sure that I had this working because I intend to be able to get back to a regular Chumby in between efforts at building robots (yep, probably more than one now).

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