Parse HTTP Request Arduino

Question

I am sending a HTTP Request to my WiFi module http://192.168.4.1/STA/ID=HelloWorld/Pass=Testin123

How can I parse above string in Arduino. First I need to check for STA, if it exists, continue to scan the string. Put Value of ID, in this case HelloWorld should be store in String data type SSID and Value of Pass, in this case Testin123 should be store in String data type Pass.

How can achieve above using ARDUINO code! Please help.

Answer 1

Your incoming string, as Gerben has mentioned, will actually be more like:

GET /STA/ID=HelloWorld/Pass=Testin123 HTTP/1.1

My personal preferred method is to use strtok() to split the string up. I'd use a two-pass method for this.

First split the string up into three parts - one GET, one the request, and the third the request type (though you don't need to use that for anything). Assume the string is in C string incoming:

char *get = strtok(incoming, " ");
char *request = strtok(NULL, " ");
char *rtype = strtok(NULL, " ");

The request is now pointed to by the *request pointer and the string has been sliced up in-place. So now you can do something similar with the request, this time splitting on / instead of space:

String SSID;
String Pass;

if (request != NULL) {
    char *part = strtok(request, "/");

    bool seenSTA = false;
    while (part) { // While there is a section to process...

        if (seenSTA) {
            if (!strncmp(part, "ID=", 3)) { // We have the ID
                SSID = String(part + 3);
            } else if (!strncmp(part, "Pass=", 5)) { // We have the password
                Pass = String(part + 5);
            }
        } else if (!strcmp(part, "STA")) { 
            seenSTA = true;
        }

        part = strtok(NULL, "/");
    }
}