PlusCart (an inexpensive DIY WiFi multicart)

[marauder666]

@Al_Nafuur

Finally got the local server running on a linux machine, a bit of a pain due port 80 not being authorised as the simple web server doesnt run as root.

Any chance it's possible to have a port number in the setup.  This would also help on MacOS.

 

 

[+karri]

One way is to listen to 8080 and have a local re-direct to localhost:80. I have a faint memory that I solved it that way years ago...

 

Perhaps something like:

sudo iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080

[marauder666]

I used authbind.  Worked well enough, but would be nice to just use port 8080.

 

[+Al_Nafuur]

On 9/28/2024 at 11:51 AM, marauder666 said:

@Al_Nafuur

Finally got the local server running on a linux machine, a bit of a pain due port 80 not being authorised as the simple web server doesnt run as root.

Any chance it's possible to have a port number in the setup.  This would also help on MacOS.

Yes, that would be a desirable feature, but I shy away from adding more to the settings.

[marauder666]

3 hours ago, Al_Nafuur said:

Yes, that would be a desirable feature, but I shy away from adding more to the settings.

Could always put it on the end of the IP address, if not entered, assume 80.

[+Al_Nafuur]

7 minutes ago, marauder666 said:

Could always put it on the end of the IP address, if not entered, assume 80.

That would result in a bit of additional parsing in the firmware.

 

It might be possible to "hack" the current firmware.

instead of using:

your.ip-address:8080

as host you might try:

your.ip-address","8080

 

The port in the AT-Command should be a number, so I am not sure the ESP8266 will accept it as string. The original port number 80 will be used as <keep alive>, but it should do any difference.

 

https://espressif-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/projects/esp-at/en/release-v2.2.0.0_esp8266/AT_Command_Set/TCP-IP_AT_Commands.html#cmd-start