Potentially a challenge for superusers: Problem running "Network Resources"

majmarker · August 3, 2022

For all the "Network Resource" gurus.. This is potentially a tough one.. Yes - I searched for the answer here first, and finally gave up. Literally spent hours on this.

I have 45 Network Resources currently, all work fine. All of them fire off HTTP Gets to a local system (same LAN) (a Philips Hue hub).

However, when I try to create a new Network Resource to a public website (IFTTT, zapier, UptimeRobot, et.al), all FAIL.

This is extremely frustrating. I have tried every possible HTTP protocol type (Get/Post/Put etc) that websites will accept for webhooks, and the "Test" runs FAIL for every config. I also tried checking/unchecking all the checkboxes in the config window, tried Gets/Puts/Posts as HTTP and HTTPS (with the proper port numbers plugged in), to no avail. Same or similar error messages as shown in my photos here.

NOW - please know that ALL of these webhooks work just fine if I cut and paste them into a simple web browser URL bar. The servers all give a "successful" response, which is why I'm hating my ISY at the moment.

Side question for the firmware developers: After using this for over 10 years, why doesn't the ISY Network Resource creation window have a "simple browser URL input" option, that will emulate whatever the heck a standard modern web browser (Chromium etc?) GET is doing, and just send it! People are given webhooks as a whole/single string and not all this protocol/encoding detail to send to their servers, yet this dialog box doesn't have a field to accept the URL as a simple full length URL with all defaults assumed! I really hate how I can't simply paste the entire webhook in as a single URL. Once I start breaking the URL apart into domain, protocol, http/https, path etc types, this increases the chance of errors, and something is failing. I feel like I have to know HTTPS protocol inside and out, plus all the possible HTTP headers to send, just to send a dang webhook! even one without any JSON variables! thanks for letting me vent.

Yes I took the time to go download and re-read the "Home Automation Cookbook?, and followed it step by step to build an IFTTT webhook, and it failed. I noticed this cookbook didn't tell me the "Encode URL" checkbox state, which was frustrating.

And as you'll see, this failure error message is really worthless guys. When I download a "Log" file and open it in Excel, it has nothing about this failure in it! frustrating again.

Heck I even updated from 4.6.6 to 5.3.4 today to see if this would fix it, OR if the error messages would be more helpful. No joy.

I assume "Internet Access: Disabled" is because I use Mobilinc, correct?

Anyone seen this before? Appreciate any help!

This is an example of just one of the webhooks that fails with the error message attached. A simple one-way et webhook to uptimerobot. This works FINE when dropped into a browser URL bar: