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Published inMar 2018
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Peter Waher
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Peter Waher

Peter Waher is the founder of Little Sister®, a standards-based distributed social network, based on the principles of edge computing, privacy & information ownership, for humans and machines. Currently, Peter advises companies on topics such as privacy, the IoT and Smart Cities. He has worked for 24 years with computers and device communication, including low-level development in assembler for resource-constrained devices to high-level system design and architecture. His award-winning applications has attracted global attention, and he has been invited to speak at prestigious events.
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Testing your devices


You are now ready to test your new CoAP-enabled devices. The easiest way to do this is to use a publicly available CoAP test tool. In this book, we will use the Copper (Cu) plugin from Firefox, which adds the coap URI scheme to the browser and allows you to explore CoAP resources easily. In the next chapter, we will show how you can create CoAP clients communicating with CoAP servers using the CoapEndpoint class.

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The Copper (Cu) plugin can be found at https://addons.mozilla.org/sv-se/firefox/addon/copper-270430/. If your CoAP server device is made available online, you can also use http://coap.me/ to test it. Check http://coap.technology/tools.html for a list of the different tools available.

Discovering the contents of your device

Now, open Firefox and install the Copper (Cu) plugin. Then navigate to your sensor device by simply entering coap://IP_ADDRESS/ into the address field of the browser; you replace IP_ADDRESS with the actual IP address of your device. Once...

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Published in: Mar 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788397483

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Peter Waher

Peter Waher is the founder of Little Sister®, a standards-based distributed social network, based on the principles of edge computing, privacy & information ownership, for humans and machines. Currently, Peter advises companies on topics such as privacy, the IoT and Smart Cities. He has worked for 24 years with computers and device communication, including low-level development in assembler for resource-constrained devices to high-level system design and architecture. His award-winning applications has attracted global attention, and he has been invited to speak at prestigious events.
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