Http To Https - Talk to https only APIs

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2016-08-13 by MrTimcakes

While creating a subscriber display for my girlfriends YouTube channel with my original Espruino I ran into an issue where the Google YouTube Data API only accepts connections over Https. The original Espruino, and ESP8266 builds, don't support https like the Pico so I created httptohttps.xyz to bridge the Espruino to the Https only service.

Check out http://httptohttps.xyz/ for how to use it, I tried to make the homepage look nice. You can use the service however you'd like but I can't promise any up-time or reliability guarantees and I ask that you don't use it for commercial purposes.

Example (This is on an ESP as an Espruino)::

var http = require("http");
http.get("http://httptohttps.xyz/https://api.github.com/users/MrTimcakes", function(res) {
  var contents = "";
  res.on('data', function(data) { contents += data; });
  res.on('close', function() { console.log("MrTimcakes is from: " + JSON.parse(contents)["location"]); });
});

prints "MrTimcakes is from: Great Britain"

I will gladly take, and even ask for, suggestions to improve the service like Headers n' stuff.
I will shortly make this open-source too.

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2016-08-15 by @gfwilliams

Wow, that's awesome. Thanks!

It's quite fun to provide an insecure way to access secure-only things :)

If only you could register htt.ps you could have http://htt.ps/api.github.com/users/MrTimcakes

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2016-09-03 by @MaBecker

@ducky like to use this httptohttps.xyz to access fencer.io

Fencer is working with data in header and returns json.

so like to try the bridge with curl to find if a position is in a fence like this:

curl
-H "Authorization: {API Key} "
-H "Lat-Pos: {Latitude coordinate} "
-H "Lng-Pos: {Longitude coordinate}"
http://httptohttps.xyz/https://api.fencer.io/v1.0/position/status/{access key}

Can the bridge handle something like this ?

Next step is to use js on espruino ;-)

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2016-09-03 by MrTimcakes

Yeah that works no problem, after I added custom header support ;)

I̶t̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶h̶t̶t̶p̶.̶r̶e̶q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶m̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶,̶ ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶a̶n̶y̶ ̶c̶u̶s̶t̶o̶m̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶d̶e̶r̶s̶.̶

And ready for Espruino here you go:

var options = {
  host: 'httptohttps.xyz',
  path: '/https://api.fencer.io/v1.0/geofence',
  method: 'GET',
  headers: { "Authorization" : "YOUR-KEY-HERE" }
};
require("http").get(options, function(res) {
  var contents="";
  res.on('data', function(data) {
    console.log(data);
  });
  res.on('close', function(data) {
    console.log("Connection closed");
  });
});

Something strange happens if I try add data to contents though, it just returns false, that's why I thought I couldn't get it to work.

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2016-09-04 by @MaBecker

Thanks - that was quick ;-)

This is what a verbose curl call gets when adding valid header data:

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 04:00:02 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
< Content-Length: 123
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< 
* Connection #0 to host httptohttps.xyz left intact
{
"data": {
        "inside":false,
        "enter":{
             "Distance":0.046,
             "Bearing":336.5
        },
        "origin":{
            "Distance":0.049,
            "Bearing":328
        }},
        "error":null
}

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2016-09-04 by @MaBecker

ok - took the sample code, added keys and headers - works fine - thanks again.

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2016-09-22 by @MaBecker

Hi @ducky

this link points to a sample Espruino module named FencerIO.js to call fencer.io using your bridge

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2019-01-23 by Will

@Patreon is this site still available? Can others use it?

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2019-01-24 by @gfwilliams

I believe it's @MrTimcakes that develops it.

While that link is dead it looks from http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/305047/?offset=25 like it's alive at HttpToHttps.MrTimcakes.com

[espruino-discuss2]

Posted at 2019-01-24 by Ollie

Looks like it's still on the domain, but on "www" rather than the apex -> http://www.httptohttps.xyz/