Getting Started with the Internet of Things

Appendix A. Test Server

For testing applications that send or receive HTTP messages, i.e., HTTP clients, you can use suitable tools for logging HTTP traffic, such as Wireshark (http://www.wireshark.org/) or Fiddler (http://www.fiddler2.com/). However, before issuing HTTP requests to a real web service out in the wild, you may want to know beforehand exactly what you would send. A simple test server is often all that you need. You run your client program (e.g., Example 7-1), on your Netduino Plus, and you run a .NET test server that logs an incoming request on your development PC.

In your client program for the Netduino Plus, change the request URI to something like this:

http://192.168.5.100:8080/testHello

but replace 192.168.5.100 with the Internet ...