Dear community, I would like to turn on and off the POE ports of my managed switch using CGI requests. I noticed that my browser sends requests of this form to the switch when I toggle the state of a port:https://192.168.8.173/cgi/set.cgi?cmd=poe_port&dummy=16...00&hash=6d91...df65 The switch returns the following error message when I attempt to reuse old CGI requests though: { "logout": true, "reason": "notAuth" } How can I produce valid CGI requests? Is there any API doccumentation that I can refer to?

Don't think there is a CGI API documentation available from Netgear. Using CGI for such a task is bad design - consider SNMP instead.

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Aspirant

Apr 22, 2021

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Dear community,

I would like to turn on and off the POE ports of my managed switch using CGI requests.

I noticed that my browser sends requests of this form to the switch when I toggle the state of a port:

The switch returns the following error message when I attempt to reuse old CGI requests though:

{
	"logout":	true,
	"reason":	"notAuth"
}

How can I produce valid CGI requests? Is there any API doccumentation that I can refer to?

schumaku
Apr 23, 2021
Don't think there is a CGI API documentation available from Netgear.

Using CGI for such a task is bad design - consider SNMP instead.

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