Ability to send HTTP Post commands from plug in

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Please let me know if it is possible to create a plug in that will send a HTTP Post Command to a custom server on a regular basis (like every 5 minutes). I am looking to create a service based on this functionality and will really appreciate is someone could guide me if this is possible or not?

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Yes, if you do a search on the forum you can find multiple ways of doing this. A lot of the plugins on this forum does this. Look into lua.socket for fine grain control of sending the request.

  • Garrett
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http://wiki.micasaverde.com/index.php/Luup_Scenes_Events#Access_the_web

along with examples that do regular HTTP access periodically like Weather, on http://code.mios.com

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Thank you for quick response. I will go ahead and buy Veralite & get into LUA Programming.