Hello everyone,
I have a series of IoT printers, which until recently worked without any issues. I was just testing them again today and no longer work. The code is the same as before. On the web-page, which I use to send the message I get the following error message:
index.html:119 XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://agent.electricimp.com/(redacted)/text. No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource. Origin ‘null’ is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 404.
But in the agent code I have res.header(“Access-Control-Allow-Origin”, "*”);
Do you have any ideas as to what has changed in the past months, or what could be wrong within the code?
Here is the agent code from the Imp server:
/*
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/
/ Electric Imp Thermal Printer Agent
Things your agent could do:
- Poll an API (here’s your meetings for the day, here’s your email, here’s your task list, weather, stocks…)
- Receive data pushed to the electric imp cloud from external sources (push messages from Adium down to your printer, etc.)
- Relay data through other web services (run an image library in a server, use it to make bitmaps and send to the printer)
- So much more…
For the purpose of this demo, we have a website that pushes a small block of JSON down to print text messages.
The JSON includes the message body, as well as text parameters like alignment, bold, underline, inverted, etc.
We’ve also included
/
server.log(“Printer Agent Started”);
// a list of message parameters we support
// we really only need the keys, but put in dummy values to prevent the possibility of a non-working state
msgParams <- {
justify = “left”,
bold = false,
underline = false,
deleteLine = false,
reverse = false,
updown = false
}
imageData <- null
imageSize <- 0
imageStart <- 0
imageEnd <- 0
imageHeight <- 0
imageWidth <- 0
imageLine <- 0
// print the electric imp logo!
function printLogo() {
//First, download it from the electric imp server
local reqURL = “http://electricimp.com/docs/attachments/images/examples/resources/ei_logo_tinyprinter.bmp”;
// Note: bitmaps should be 384 pixels wide
// if you don’t pre-size your image properly, the printer will just mangle it
// also note that the header-reading below is specific to a classic “BM” bitmap, with
// a standard DIB header.
local req = http.get(reqURL);
imageData = req.sendsync().body;
// there are headers in a bitmap, and they’re nasty.
// The size of the pixel array is in bytes 34-37, LSB-first
// there’s an extra two bytes included in the length that doesn’t get printed, so ignore them
imageSize = ((imageData[37] << 24) | (imageData[36] << 16) | (imageData[35] << 8) | imageData[34])-2;
// The offset to the pixel array is in bytes 10-13, LSB-first
// BMPs paint from bottom to top, so this is technically the last row
imageStart = ((imageData[13] << 24) | (imageData[12] << 16) | (imageData[11] << 8) | imageData[10]);
imageEnd = imageStart + imageSize;
imageLine = 0;
// the BMP width and height are 4 bytes each, in px, LSB-first, at a constant offset (probably)
imageWidth = ((imageData[21] << 24) | (imageData[20] << 16) | (imageData[19] << 8) | imageData[18]);
imageHeight = ((imageData[25] << 24) | (imageData[24] << 16) | (imageData[23] << 8) | imageData[22]);
server.log(format(“Agent: Got the logo bitmap, len: %d, width: %d, height: %d, start: %d, end: %d”,
imageSize, imageWidth, imageHeight, imageStart, imageEnd));
// It’s too big for imp memory, so shuffle it down to the printer a chunk at a time
local imageParams = [imageSize, imageWidth, imageHeight];
device.send(“downloadImage”, imageParams);
}
// when the device is ready for more data, it calls “pull” with the length of data
// it wants. If we hit the end of the image, the buffer we send down may not be
// equal to size, so the device must check the length of the buffer it receives.
device.on(“pull”, function(size) {
local buf = blob(size);
// Find line number
local lineBytes = imageWidth/8;
for(local j = 0; j < size/lineBytes; j++) {
local offset = imageStart + ((imageHeight-imageLine-1) * lineBytes);
for(local i = 0; i < lineBytes; i++) {
buf[jlineBytes + i] = imageData[offset + i];
}
imageLine++;
}
device.send(“imgData”, buf);
});
// when the device is done downloading the image, it signals to the agent to reset the appropriate pointers
device.on(“imageDone”, function(value) {
imageData = null;
imageSize = 0;
imageStart = 0;
imageEnd = 0;
imageHeight = 0;
imageWidth = 0;
imageLine = 0;
server.log(“Agent: image pointers reset”);
});
// this function responds to http requests to the agent URL
http.onrequest(function(request,res){
// regardless of response, we need the proper headers to allow cross-origin requests
// NOTE: You may want to set this field to allow only the domain you expect (and want to allow)
// requests from.
res.header(“Access-Control-Allow-Origin”, “*”);
// NOTE: if you’re sending data cross-site, you won’t even see your request body unless these headers
// are set to allow your request in. The client-side will send a “preflight check” to test whether
// the agent will accept the request, and if not, request.body is going to come up empty
res.header(“Access-Control-Allow-Headers”,“Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept”);
res.header(“Access-Control-Allow-Methods”, “POST, GET, OPTIONS”);
// new text-based message handler
if (request.path == “/text”) {
server.log("Agent got new text message: "+request.body);
try {
local message = http.jsondecode(request.body);
//server.log("Text of message: "+message.text);
// set up the printer to print the way we’ve been instructed to
foreach (key, value in msgParams) {
//server.log("setting “+key+” to "+message[key]);
device.send(key, message[key]);
}
// now feed the message down and print it
// the PHP script that feeds us text takes care of doing the word wrapping
device.send(“print”, message.text);
res.send(200, “printed”);
} catch (err) {
res.send(400, “request error”);
server.log(“Agent: Error parsing new message”);
}
}
// new image handler
else if (request.path == “/image”) {
server.log(“Agent got new image”);
local message = http.jsondecode(request.body);
// relay data to imp
device.send(“printImage”, message.data);
// send response
res.send(200, “printed”);
} else {
server.log("Agent got unknown request: "+request.body);
res.send(400, “request error”);
}
});
device.on(“logo”, function(value) {
printLogo();
});
edited to remove agent id
