On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 17:19:56 -0000 (UTC)
William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
On 2021-07-18, Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a modem which requires a Javascript browser to change modem settings.
A modem? What modem?
Netgear , Super Hub 2ac VMDG490 .
Modems differ. Commands to modems differ.
Indeed. If you read the README file , your questions may be answered.
On 2021-07-18, Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
My idea of clickbait is something which is intentionally provocative so that people will get the irresistible compulsion to go to the link. I
don't believe this applies to what I posted. In any case , would you consider it preferable if I posted the whole README here ? IMO it would
be poor form to post something kind of long. So my opening post gave
the general idea and if someone is interested , they can read the README
to get the details.
Unfortunately you went to the other extreme-- made it so short and
unspecific that the reader had no idea what it was that you were talking about. Wireless is a hub or router, not a modem, as your subsequent
response indicated. Modems (modulator-demodulator) are now 50 years old.
So while I admire your restraint at not posting all of the details, I
was complaining that you posted so so few that I certainly could not
figure out what you could be talking about. And it was so generic (while
what you refering to was very specific to your particular
hub/router/modem).
There are many aspects of clickbait, and one is to post something so
vague to a help group, that someone, wanting to help, or possibly use,
will click on your site.
There are many kinds of bait.
You can get
them at http://vlaho.ninja/prog/#modem-settings . The online README file (also part of the download) has instructions and a lot more details.
My opening post mentioned 2 utilities. One is specific to my router.
The other will store in a file the HTTP requests and responses between
any router and the browser and hopefully by studying those the user will learn how to reproduce programmatically the requests which modify the settings as they want them. Even the utility specific to my router is
not that specialised because the router was provided by Virginmedia
which is one of the most popular U.K. ISPs and I posted to uk* groups.
I have a modem which requires a Javascript browser to change modem settings.
This has been an irritation for a while. I have finally managed to write a little utility which allows me to turn on and off the 2.4 GHz wireless signal
from the command line and I'm making it available to the world with the hope that others may also find it useful. Also another utility which captures all the exchanges between a browser and a modem and stores them in a file ; this latter utility allowed me to figure out how to write the former. Both are written in C99 and tested on Linux. License is public domain. You can get them at http://vlaho.ninja/prog/#modem-settings . The online README file (also part of the download) has instructions and a lot more details.
On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 18:30:37 -0000 (UTC)
William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
On 2021-07-18, Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed. If you read the README file , your questions may be answered.
And I should click on click-bait?
My idea of clickbait is something which is intentionally provocative so
that people will get the irresistible compulsion to go to the link. I
don't believe this applies to what I posted. In any case , would you
consider it preferable if I posted the whole README here ? IMO it would
be poor form to post something kind of long. So my opening post gave
the general idea and if someone is interested , they can read the README
to get the details.
On 2021-07-18, Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed. If you read the README file , your questions may be answered.
And I should click on click-bait?
My opening post mentioned 2 utilities. One is specific to my router.
The other will store in a file the HTTP requests and responses between
any router and the browser and hopefully by studying those the user will learn how to reproduce programmatically the requests which modify the settings as they want them. Even the utility specific to my router is
not that specialised because the router was provided by Virginmedia
which is one of the most popular U.K. ISPs and I posted to uk* groups.
On 2021-07-18, Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
My idea of clickbait is something which is intentionally provocative so that people will get the irresistible compulsion to go to the link. I
don't believe this applies to what I posted. In any case , would you consider it preferable if I posted the whole README here ? IMO it would
be poor form to post something kind of long. So my opening post gave
the general idea and if someone is interested , they can read the README
to get the details.
Unfortunately you went to the other extreme-- made it so short and
unspecific that the reader had no idea what it was that you were talking about. Wireless is a hub or router, not a modem, as your subsequent
response indicated. Modems (modulator-demodulator) are now 50 years old.
So while I admire your restraint at not posting all of the details, I
was complaining that you posted so so few that I certainly could not
figure out what you could be talking about. And it was so generic (while
what you refering to was very specific to your particular
hub/router/modem).
There are many aspects of clickbait, and one is to post something so
vague to a help group, that someone, wanting to help, or possibly use,
will click on your site.
There are many kinds of bait.
On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 17:19:56 -0000 (UTC)
William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
On 2021-07-18, Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a modem which requires a Javascript browser to change modem settings.
A modem? What modem?
Netgear , Super Hub 2ac VMDG490 .
Modems differ. Commands to modems differ.
Indeed. If you read the README file , your questions may be answered.
You can get
them at http://vlaho.ninja/prog/#modem-settings . The online README file (also part of the download) has instructions and a lot more details.
On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 17:43:47 +0200
Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
[...]
This is strange. Someone or something reposted my message with ID <R+EiOUcgN7y1BkzbD@bongo-ra.co> right after I made it. The reposting changed the From: line in the header. Anyone has any clue what's happening ?
On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 21:49:12 +0000, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
The other will store in a file the HTTP requests and responses between
any router and the browser and hopefully by studying those the user will learn how to reproduce programmatically the requests which modify the settings as they want them. Even the utility specific to my router is
not that specialised because the router was provided by Virginmedia
which is one of the most popular U.K. ISPs and I posted to uk* groups.
What does this offer that Wireshark doesn't do? Apart, that is, from only looking at HTTP and HTTPS traffic?
Wireshark is my current go-to tool whenever I need to understand network, i.e. TCP/IP, traffic in any detail.
Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
This is strange. Someone or something reposted my message
I see now that the same has happened with several other posts in the
thread.
It's like the sorcerer's broom, we have 9 identical named threads now,
maybe stop replying to them?
In any case , how complicated would it be to do with wireshark the following :
Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
This is strange. Someone or something reposted my message
I see now that the same has happened with several other posts in the thread.
Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
This is strange. Someone or something reposted my message
I see now that the same has happened with several other posts in the thread.
It's like the sorcerer's broom, we have 9 identical named threads now,
maybe stop replying to them?
Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
This is strange. Someone or something reposted my message
I see now that the same has happened with several other posts in the
thread.
It's like the sorcerer's broom, we have 9 identical named threads now,
maybe stop replying to them?
In any case , how complicated would it be to do with wireshark the following :
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 185 |
| Nodes: | 16 (1 / 15) |
| Uptime: | 01:51:05 |
| Calls: | 3,676 |
| Calls today: | 2 |
| Files: | 11,149 |
| Messages: | 3,447,107 |