socket connection not returning/reading response

edit: The client has sent me a 10.8.5 OS laptap to test with and it does not work on this Mac either.

Hey Trevor. So I downloaded thes script and tried making the socket call using the GetURL() method. Still I get no response. I decided to step through what the script was doing and it looks like it is an infinite loop because I really am getting no response. The script gets all the way down to this line:

readState.dataAvailable = readState.buffer.length > 0;

which returns false and then we go back through the loop.

So this is the request that the getURL() function is using to open the socket with where the parsedURL.path and parsedURL.address are correct and are the same as being using in the browser to connect:

        "GET /" + parsedURL.path + " HTTP/1.0\n" +

        "Host: " + parsedURL.address + "\n" +

        "User-Agent: InDesign ExtendScript\n" +

        "Accept: text/xml,text/*,*/*\n" +

        "Accept-Encoding:\n" +

        "Connection: keep-alive\n" +

        "Accept-Language: *\n" +

        "Accept-Charset: utf-8\n\n";

Not sure if it helpful but the response headers are as follows:

1. HTTP/1.1 200 OK Cache-Control: private
2. Content-Type: text/html
3. Content-Encoding: gzip
4. Vary: Accept-Encoding
5. Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.5 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 18:09:14 GMT
6. Content-Length: 216

I get the headers by browsing to the URL in the browser. Can anyone think of any other avenues to look at?

EDIT #2 POST request also do not return any data. After executing the following code the reply is blank.

 if (conn.open(vHost))
 {
        
    conn.write("POST " +vSubDir+"/get_pathnames.asp HTTP/1.1\r\n");
    conn.write("Host: " + vHost + "\r\n");
    conn.write("Content-Length: " + data_string.length + "\r\n");
    conn.write("Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
    conn.write("\r\n");
    
    conn.write(data_string);
    var reply = "";
    reply = conn.read(999999);
    conn.close();
    
    if (debug) $.writeln("\n----------- return from pathnames -------------\n");
    if (debug) $.writeln(reply);
    if (debug) $.writeln("\n----------- return from pathnames END -------------\n");
 }

Message was edited by: bduff323