Homebrew Development question, networking on the wii?

[nulln]

What would be the easiest way to go about sending requests to a server, and getting a response?

I'm trying to make a request to my server and use query strings to pass data. Something like

site.example/make_request?heressomedata=hello&additionaldata=sup

Then I could return the response from the server in json, have the wii read it, and boom! client-server communication. But before I can do any of that, I need to know how to even send data to the server in the first place.

 

[GreyWolf]

The console has no HTTP stack so you'll have to bring your own. You can use bushing's. It's what most homebrew seems to use. I don't think it was ever in a repository so you can just grab http.c and http.h from another project like Nintendont.

 

[newo]

I use this to comunicate with my leaderboard in c.

http://wiibrew.org/w/images/6/6c/Sample_netsend.zip
http://wiibrew.org/w/images/e/e4/Http_download_example.zip

For the heavy lifting;
https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser

 

[nulln]

Sorry I'm a couple days late, but with a bit of finicking I got newo's example to compile. I've tried to use the http.c files, I came across them from WiiMC. I would have gone with that if I could have gotten it to work. Thank you both so much, you've been a great help!

 

[newo]

Always glad to help when I can especially since there are not many people into wii homebrew dev.

One issue I had with http is that some servers might take upto 15 seconds to respond to each request, this happen because of a issue with http headers. Might not be something you need to worry about right now but if comes up let us know.