I've been working on a challenge over the past couple of days and I could really use a knowledge transfer on App Engine, Domains and IP addresses. I seem to be missing something.
I'm trying to write a library for Arduino Micro-controllers to do HTTP Posts to a servlet hosted on appengine. For example The URL of the servlet is http://nimbits1.appspot.com/service/currentvalue?point=test&format=json Do to limitations on the Arduino device, i need to get an IP Address that will resolve to nimbits1.appspot.com first, before doing my post to /service/currentvalue?point=test&format=json I have the C code to request an IP from DNS of a domain which works without a problem. So far so good. My problem is my requests seem to hit a brick wall when I try to use the IP instead of the Domain in my requests. Let's say I ping nimbits1.appspot.com - I get 74.125.113.121 or 72.14.204.141 back from the DNS Server. This takes me to Google servers, but not my app. I'm guessing that the server want the subdomain in the request but i'm not provided one. I registered a new domain: nimbits.org on godaddy and followed Nick Johnson's fine tutorial on mapping naked domains to have nimbits.org redirect to nimbits1.appspot.com (As a permanent redirect without masking) http://blog.notdot.net/2009/12/Naked-domains-on-App-Engine if i navigate to http://nimbits.org I redirect ok to http://nimbits1.appspot.com Further, if i do a wget in a linux terminal I can see the IP's i'm resolving to: benja...@ben-ubws01:~$ wget nimbits.org --2010-10-09 12:20:43-- http://nimbits.org/ Resolving nimbits.org... 64.202.189.170 Connecting to nimbits.org|64.202.189.170|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://nimbits1.appspot.com [following] --2010-10-09 12:20:44-- http://nimbits1.appspot.com/ Resolving nimbits1.appspot.com... 64.233.169.141 Connecting to nimbits1.appspot.com|64.233.169.141|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: `index.html.10' [ <=> ] 3,376 --.-K/s in 0.003s 2010-10-09 12:20:44 (1.18 MB/s) - `index.html.10' saved [3376] If i try and navigate to any of the above IP Addresses i.e http://64.233.169.141 I endup on google or godaddy, but not my app. Any help would be greatly appriciated. I may have to resort to having users point their arduino to an internal web server that can forward the request, but having arduino devices post directly to app engine would be very cool. -Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
