桌面快捷方式的HTTP POST？

Question

I've got a wireless router with the Tomato custom firmware on it. There are a number of actions I'd like to perform from simple desktop shortcuts, such as turning off the wireless or running a command for checking the status of the FTP server on it.

I can do these from the 'system' tool which lets you execute shell commands and returns the output.

I have found from analysis of the markup on this page that this is done by way of a simple XMLHttp POST to shell.cgi , parameters action=execute&command=ls and the output is the STDOUT you'd get if you performed this on a local shell.

How can I create a desktop shortcut to perform these posts and somehow echo the response?

What I have figured I could do so far is to make an HTML file which launches a POST using jQuery using some predefined function depending on URI segments, which I'd vary for each of the shortcut files.

However does anyone know a better way of doing this programatically under Windows?

Answer 1

Use wget, which has a windows port. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

wget --post-data 'action=execute&command=ls' http://router/shell.cgi

You can run the command from a batch file on your desktop.

Answer 2

This is just a trick to do the same.

1. Create a File like executeThisPostRequest.sh

2. Add the following lines in that file

   curl --data "userName=Dileep&MyPassword=SameAsYours" http://10.0.1.1/login?
exit

3. Navigate to the File path where executeThisPostRequest.sh is located using terminal.

4. Execute chmod a+x shellscript.execute.sh

5. Right click on the file and select execute using terminal.

   Open with >> Other >> all Application >> Utilities >> Terminal

   Remember settings if you want.

Now you you can click on that file to execute a post request to the URL with the data you have specified.