WebServer HTTP API (HttpApi): for PocketPC and Web-client Remote Control Apps

talking of xbmccontroldesktop.exe.config, i would like to fix the http standard non-compliance in the goahead web server that requires the use of this config file. i am in a position to fix the problem but i can't see what the problem is with the headers. the headers that are causing the problem are:

http/1.0 200 ok
server: goahead-webs
pragma: no-cache
cache-control: no-cache
content-type: text/html

does anyone have any suggestions of what is causing the problem?

nad

can it be that it misses the content-length?

taken from the http spesification

Quote: all 1xx (informational), 204 (no content), and 304 (not modified) responses must not include a body. all other responses must include an entity body or a content-length header field defined with a value of zero (0).

not sure about the header, but check docs about that error on msdn they probably have info on how it's supposed to look.

just a entry bar in which you could give the url that the playfile instruction gets would be really nice i think. i have that situation quite often that i find a stream on the net that i'd like to view in xbmc, but i'm to lazy to create a strm file and put in a location where the xbox can see it.

cannot seem to find the demo compiled applications (esp pocketpc app.
only see 1 file that looks like a sourcecode of it....

download xbmccontrol.zip from the sf link at the start of this thread. unzip (retaining folder structure) and the files that need to be copied to your pocketpc are in the root of the folder you unzipped to.
you will also find in the zip a second zip file which is the desktop version.

nad

yep had downloaded it previously...
this time when i try it all i get is a corrupt zip file

hey i have the new march 12 xbmc and it says it can't retrieve anything from the xbox.........i don't know how to set this up. i can control it using firefox but not this program :help:
im using the desktop version

mvoosten: try again, the zip files are ok

incognegro: from firefox enter the following url

http://xbox/xbmccmds/xbmchttp?command=ge...tlyplaying

(you may need to substitute xbox with the actual ip address of your xbox)

if you get a response with 'currently playing' then xbmc is set up correctly. if you don't but the web interface is working (which you say it is) then it sounds like you need a more recent version of xbmc.

once the above is working then you can turn your attention to xbmccontroldesktop. open up xbmccontroldesktop.ini.txt (created the first time you run the program) in a text editor and replace the line

xboxip=xbox

with the ip address you used in firefox, e.g:

xboxip=192.168.0.2

that should be all you need to get past the initial error message. you will now need to further configure the ini.txt file as detailed in the readme.txt file.

nad

just uploaded v0.97 which adds 'play clipboard' command to the desktop version. see the readme file but basically copying the name of a stream or a file to the clipboard and using the new command will start xbmc playing the stream/file.

nad

ok this is serious! i followed what you told me, word for word, and im gonna tell you step by step what happened:

downloaded the xbmccontrol.zip from the link provided (version 0.97)
read your post and put my ip in place of xbox on the link and it worked. it told me what song is play presently.
i unzipped the xbmccontrol.zip and extracted xbmccontrol desktop into "new folder" on my desktop (just to test it)
then i opened xbmccontroldesktop.exe and i get a messege saying "xbmccontrol.ini.txt should be checked - using default values" xbmccontrol.ini.txt appears in the folder cause it wasn't there before.
i open xbmccontrol.ini.txt with notepad and replace 'xbox' with my ip and now it looks like:

xboxip=192.168.0.54
root=mp3s=f:\music\main\
root=videos=f:\music\video\
bypasscache=false
wipeimagereview=false
wipefolders=false
savetofolder_jpg=false
autostartplaylist=true
autocheckclipboard=false
checkperiod=10
streamprotocol=mms:|
streamext=.asf|

i try it again and it says 'talking to xbox' for a moment then says 'loading media list' then a prompt come up saying "could not retrieve files list from xbmc. check the network and xbmc settings." then it goes off line.

so i check my xbmc settings and i have it set as a webserver on port 80 with no pass and ftp server is on too. while im doing all of this, im playing a playlist of songs on an smb share. my network shouldn't have any problems cause i can access everything from any program from my xbox with my setup. never had a problem with my network at all.
i have march 21 cvs build so its not an old version issue.no matter what build i try, its the same problem. :help: