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bb cmd protocol? (was [hobbit] Windows version of a fully functional bb command)

list Henrik Størner
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:02:01 +0100
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The description of the "Message Syntax" in the man-page is what you need
to know. Hobbit uses plain TCP, and data being transferred is plain
text. I.e.

   - connect to tcp port 1984
   - send "status www,foo,com.mytest green"
   - close the connection


Regards,
Henrik


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:43:10PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
Henrik,

I'm talking about the connection protocol, not the message protocol. So that I can write code that can connect to a BBDISPLAY and send/receive data, without shelling out and using a bb binary.  I've tried telnetting to port 1984 and typing various commands, and also using netcat, none of which seem to work, so I suspect that hobbitd is expecting to see some certain characters before it will accept a command.

-Charles

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:29:40AM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
  
Speaking of such, is the protocol for the bb command published anywhere?
    
See the bb(1) man-page.