SHOUTcast fetch request denied every time with 404

Question

Code

function radiotest(host,port)
    local rstr="Online"
    local sock, err = socket.tcp()
    if not sock then
        return "Failed"
    end
    sock:settimeout(1)
    local res, err = sock:connect(host, port)
    if not res then
        return "offline"
    else
        sock:settimeout(1)
        sock:send("GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\r\n UserAgent: SHOUTcast Song Status \r\n Accept: */*\r\n\r\n")
        sock:settimeout(3)
        local data=sock:receive('*a')
        sock:close()
        print(data)
        -- Further processing content here
    end
end
print( radiotest( "10.*.*.*", 1234 ) )

The above socket connection returns me:

ICY 404 Resource Not Found
icy-notice1:<BR>SHOUTcast Distributed Network Audio Server/win32 v1.9.7<BR>
icy-notice2:The resource requested was not found<BR>

I think the problem is in my headers listing, but I'm unable to trace it.

The page opens fine in all browsers(Opera does need to be masked as another browser; otherwise it just keeps on downloading all songs).

I've tried using following strings inside sock:send()

• GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\r\n UserAgent: SHOUTcast Song Status (Mozilla Compatible)\r\n\r\n
• GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\r\n UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.12\r\n\r\n
• GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\r\n UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17\r\n\r\n

I'm totally stuck at this part. How do I fetch the page using socket.tcp()?

Answer 1

@Brad Thanks. Your help with Wireshark was indeed practicable. The User-Agent header was not being passed to the server because of an extra space I was providing in the request.

sock:send("GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\r\n UserAgent: SHOUTcast Song Status \r\n Accept: */*\r\n\r\n")

The \r\n UserAgent: SHOUTcast Song Status should instead be:

\r\nUser-Agent: SHOUTcast Song Status

And it is working fine now.

Thanks for the help. :D

The results from the function after filtering out the HTML is like:

Online(Tonic - If You Could Only See)

Online(Tonic - If You Could Only See) Stream is up at 256 kbps with 0 of 32 listeners (0 unique)