Testing the home network automation protocol

- [Instructor] The Home Network Automation Protocol…or HNAP had been developed to provide a standard protocol…for managing home automation devices…and is becoming widely supported…in order to enable interoperability.…HNAP has been designed as a lightweight protocol…so that it can be implemented…to support low power IoT devices…and has also been adopted in some home network routers.…HNAP uses the HTTP simple object access protocol…with a set of standard functions…that allow advanced programmatic configuration…and management of devices across the network.…

HNAP is designed as a client server model…with HNAP servers implemented inside of networking devices…to be managed and make up clients…being software applications residing on mobile phones,…PCs, or other devices,…but can interact with an HNAP server…in order to manage the device.…The protocol uses HTTP with SOAP XML constructs…using request and response packets.…Except for the discovery command, HNAP requests the device…use an HTTP post to the URL http://deviceiphnap.…