Any Progress is Good Progress

Previously...

• I wrote some new code to process requests.
• I turned it on and...it didn't work.
• I changed the system to stop sending "raw" HTTP.

I looked around at the way a connection using Pidgin to port 5280 worked and noticed that the IP address I was using was probably not in the expected format.  Whereas ejabberd was expecting something like this:

    {{127,0,0,1}, 1234} 

I was giving it something like this:

    <<127,0,0,1>>

I changed it over and ejabberd seemed much happier.  At least until it hit the next problem.

Now it is complaining about the following:

=ERROR REPORT==== 2012-03-15 20:21:23 ===

Error in process <0.379.0> on node 'ejabberd@localhost' with exit value: {badarg,[{erlang,length,[{200,[{"Content-Type","text/xml; charset=utf-8"},{"Access-Control-Allow-Origin","*"},{"Access-Control-Allow-Headers","Content-Type"}],<<763 bytes>>}]},{megaphone_sender,send_packet,3},{megaphone_sender,main_loop... 

Which looks like megaphone is gagging on what ejabberd is returning --- raw HTTP instead of just an XML body.  The good news is that means that I don't have to worry about how to get a complete HTTP response from what ejabberd gives me.  All I have to do is just stream what I get back to ECM and let that in turn stream it back to the client.

So all in all, a good day working at the code.

Next time: modifying megaphone to pass back raw HTTP to ECM.