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Hello,

When trying to run a simple get program, I ran into issues while trying to process the get request.
In a simple nested loop example, like this:
while(client.connected()){
  while (client.available()) {
     char c = client.read();
     Serial.println(c);
   }
}
The client.connected() evaluates as true, but the client.available() -which returns how many bytes I have available for reading- returns 0. Why do I not have any available space? Do I need to use an SD card?

thanks

[Reply #1 on:]

Why do I not have any available space?

If connected() returns true, and available() returns 0, it means that the Arduino is waiting for the server to supply a response that can be read.

What are you connecting to? What GET request did you make? What response is that server/script returning?

The available() method says nothing about space.

[Reply #2 on:]

servername is: char servername[]="www.arduino.cc"; 

  if (client.connect(servername, 80)) {
      Serial.println("connected");
      // Make a HTTP request:
    client.println("GET /latest.txt HTTP/1.1");
    client.println("Host: www.arduino.cc");
    client.println("User-Agent: arduino-ethernet");
    client.println("Connection: close");
    client.println();

    while(client.connected()) {
      //Serial.println(client.connected());
      Serial.println(client.available());
      while (client.available()) {
       // client.setTimeout(2000);
        char c = client.read();
        Serial.println(c);
      }
    }

I am just trying ot get the source from the page: http://www.arduino.cc/latest.txt

[Reply #3 on:]

The Host, User-Agent, and Connection statements are not needed.

Do you have DNS enabled, outside that snippet? If not, you need to use IP addresses, not host names.

[Reply #4 on:]

sorry, apparently there are just problems between the wifi shield and mac OSX. Tried it on a windows machine and it worked. Thanks