Strange! Getting user to register using SendHTTPRequestASync

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Jambo B

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Posted: 31st Jan 2015 17:51

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Hi,

I've got a basic test application working which sends some data to a PHP page on my website. It was all working fine until I used GetDeviceID() to put the unique device ID into the Post message:

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SetWindowSize( 1024, 768, 0 )
SetPrintSize(15)
SetVirtualResolution( 1024, 768 )
SetOrientationAllowed( 1, 1, 1, 1 )

http = CreateHTTPConnection()
SetHTTPHost( http, "www.glasstowers.co.uk", 0 )

sID$ = getdeviceid()
sPost$ = "name="+sID$+"&org=ABC"
SendHTTPRequestASync( http, "testreg.php", sPost$)
while GetHTTPResponseReady(http) = 0
    Print( "Connecting..." )
    Sync()
endwhile

response$ = GetHTTPResponse(http)

CloseHTTPConnection(http)
DeleteHTTPConnection(http)

// main loop
do
    Print( "Server response: " + response$ )
    Sync()
loop

This bombs out completely.

Strangely, over here,when the &org= part of the Post data is longer than 'ABC' it doesn't crash!

Also, if I don't use GetDeviceID(), it doesn't crash!

I'd appreciate it if anyone could try this, run it a few times and report back. I'm using Alpha 10.

Thanks very much,

James

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Jambo B

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Posted: 1st Feb 2015 11:18

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After further investigation, it seems that it doesn't crash if the &org= part is >4 characters long.

I have no idea why this is, and I think I'm just going to leave it like that, make sure the org is always >4 characters, and hope nothing surfaces later to bite me on the backside.

If anyone has any ideas in the meantime, please let me know!

Cheers,

James

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Wilf

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Posted: 1st Feb 2015 11:37

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I use SendHTTPRequestASync too but was using an ID generated per install, not deviceID. I just changed my code to use getDeviceID as a test and although it didn't bomb out, it did crash on hitting escape.

Testing your code:
1st time: Connected with a server response 'New'.
2nd time: Immediate AppGameKit crash.
3rd time: Server response was 'None'. Crash on hitting escape.
4th - 8th time: Crash straight away
9th time: Server response 'None', no crash on hitting escape.

These tests all done on Windows btw.
Definitely something screwy going on; do you use 'strip_tags' on the php side?

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Jambo B

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Posted: 1st Feb 2015 13:24

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I've tried it with and without strip_tags with the same result.

I'm glad you're getting the crash as well - thought I was going mad.