Client connection failes (returns 0) at second attempt

Using Arduino Networking, Protocols, and Devices
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Dear all,

I've read through the forum but have not found any solution to my problem so I decided to create my own topic here, thank you in advance for your help.

My problem is as follows: I'm posting a request (with a press of a button) to a web server which returns JSON object. At first press of the button the client is able to connect and response comes as expected. But when I do this again connection fails (client.connect(...)) and returns 0 as an error code. Please see my code below:

When button is pressed the following function is called:

void buttonPress() {
  if (client.connect(mirServer, 80)) {
    Serial.print("connected to ");
    Serial.println(client.remoteIP());

    client.println("POST /cgi-bin/test.cgi HTTP/1.1");
    client.println("Host: 192.168.1.22");
    client.println("Content-Type: application/json");
    client.println("Accept-Language: en_US");
    client.print("Authorization: Basic ");
    client.println(authToken);
    client.print("Content-length: ");
    client.println(jsonStr.length());
    client.println();

    client.println(jsonStr);
    
    client.println("Connection: close");
    client.println();


  // Check HTTP status
  char status[32] = {0};
  client.readBytesUntil('\r', status, sizeof(status));
  if (strcmp(status, "HTTP/1.1 200 OK") != 0) {
    Serial.print(F("Unexpected response: "));
    Serial.println(status);
    return;
  }

  // Skip HTTP headers
  char endOfHeaders[] = "\r\n\r\n";
  if (!client.find(endOfHeaders)) {
    Serial.println(F("Invalid response"));
    return;
  }

  } else {
    // if you didn't get a connection to the server:
    Serial.println("connection failed");
  }
}

An this is the loop:

void loop() {
//  // First button was pressed
  buttonStateHandler(digitalRead(button1Pin),button1Pin);
  buttonStateHandler(digitalRead(button2Pin),button2Pin);
  buttonStateHandler(digitalRead(button3Pin),button3Pin);
  buttonStateHandler(digitalRead(button4Pin),button4Pin);

  char resp[561];
  if (client.available()) {
    client.readBytesUntil('\r', resp, sizeof(resp));
 
    StaticJsonBuffer<561> jsonBuffer;
  
    JsonObject& root = jsonBuffer.parseObject(resp);
    
    if (!root.success()) {
      Serial.println(F("Parsing failed!"));
      return;    
    }

    Serial.println(F("Response STATE:"));
    Serial.println(root["state"].as<char*>());

    if (!client.connected()) {
      Serial.println();
      Serial.println("disconnecting.");
      client.stop();     
    }      
  }
}

I'm totally stuck at this point any help would be highly appreciated.

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    client.println("Connection: close");

This line is part of the header and must not be transferred after the content.

I'm totally stuck at this point any help would be highly appreciated.

Post complete code! You don't write anything about the used hardware, the used libraries et al. As you didn't specify the Arduino model we expect you to use an UNO. If you actually transfer JSON content of the size you reserve buffer space I guess you run out of memory.

BTW, you cannot expect a JSON file to have a carriage return only at the end of the file.

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You made my day!!! I'm using a UNO with 32 kbyte memory. And yes, the problem is with the length of the JSON response. Once i reduced it the issue has gone. Thank you so much.

Have a nice day

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I'm using a UNO with 32 kbyte memory.

The UNO has 32kB of flash but only 2kB of RAM (which is relevant in this context).