How to use the builtin http-daemon

At first you have to activate the http daemon in the bot. You can do this via the command “http”. You have to tell the http-daemon on which port it listens. If you have an unprivileged account you have to use a port > 1024. I think port 8080 is a good choice:

http 8080

You will receive a message if the startup of the http-daemon was successful and some informations for using it:

Example -> http://127.0.0.1:8080/3f4cf1150adc6b71426094369353f8b6?

You can now start a browser (Firefox for example) and enter the following url:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/3f4cf1150adc6b71426094369353f8b6?uptime

The bot will answer with:

uptime:
OK: The Bot is running since 28.11.2013 12:13:19 - this is an uptime of 00:01:43.1093750

It works!

Now you can try different commands and if you know the ip of your host, you can initiate commands from another system.

Important:
You have to escape some characters to make them work:
Dollar “$” → %24
Ampersand ”&” → %26
Plus ”+” → %2B
Comma ”,” → %2C
Slash ”/” → %2F
Colon ”:” → %3A
Semi-colon ”;” → %3B
Equals ”=” → %3D
Question mark ”?” → %3F
At-Symbol ”@” → %40
Backslash “\” → %5C

Hint:
If you like to use a Newline in your text, please use the following sequence: %2Fn%2Fr

Now you can connect to the telnet-daemon via Start/Execute:

telnet localhost 8001

The use of a special “Mud-Client” is recommended, i prefer:
http://www.dforces.net/client/

Or alternative download-source:
http://www.yshare.de/index.php?h=e2282c2e7eb830fccce212403e41f31d

I recommend this settings for the DF-Client (search for them in the configuration-menu):

Hostname: localhost bzw. richtiger Hostname
Port: 8001
Connection type: MUD
Terminal/Implicit CR in every LF: On
Window/Lines of scrollback: 5000
Window/Translation: UTF-8
Connection/Seconds between keepalives: 30

Save your setup in a session for easier access!