found the problem, yiehah

tools/test7774.py

@@ -1,24 +1,32 @@
 
 """
-attempt to contact the peerServer port 7774 on HZ
+Tying to find out how to contact the peerServer port 7774 on HZ
 
-the example from MaWo's script https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823785.msg13656332#msg13656332 is: 
+The example from MaWo's script https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823785.msg13656332#msg13656332 is: 
 curl -4 -m5 --data '{"platform":"TEST","protocol":1,"application":"TEST Bot","requestType":"getInfo","version":"v0.1"}' "http://woll-e.net:7774/nhz"
 
 
-But I just cannot get it working, however I try. Always the same answer:
+At first, I just could not get it working, however I tried. Always the same answer:
 
 http://woll-e.net:7774/nhz
 test 1:
 {"cause":"Unexpected character (r) at position 0.","error":"Your peer is blacklisted"}
 test 2:
 {"cause":"Unexpected character (r) at position 0.","error":"Your peer is blacklisted"}
 
-Please help. Thanks.
+
+Then I had the idea to send both requests (curl, python.requests) to requestb.in, to compare them.
+And that helped! 
+
+The 'header' has to be set to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 
+for the 7774 peerserver to accept the data. *sigh*, I made it ... 
 
 """
 
-import urllib2
+import urllib2, urllib, urlparse
+
+try:  import requests
+except:  print "pip install requests"
 
 PORT=7774
 
@@ -48,9 +56,61 @@ def test2():
   r=requests.post(URL, data=data)
   print r.text
 
+import json
+
+def test3():
+  """
+  Trying to find out what is wrong 
+  by comparing curl with python.requests.post
+  in requestb.in
+  """
+
+
+  print """
+  test against this manual curl:
+  curl -d '{"protocol":1,"requestType":"getInfo"}' "http://requestb.in/11c8di01"  
+  """
+
+  url="http://requestb.in/11c8di01" # http://requestb.in/11c8di01?inspect
 
+  data={"protocol":1,"requestType":"getInfo"}
+  data=json.dumps(data)
+
+  # THIS WAS THE THING TO DO *sigh*:  
+  headers = {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
+
+  r=requests.post(url, data=data, headers=headers)
+  print r.status_code, r.text
+  print "now lookup %s_inspect to see the results.\n\n" % url
+
+def test4():
+  nodes=[u'5.9.149.197', u'5.196.143.14', u'23.95.44.142', u'23.245.7.15', u'31.24.29.221', u'37.120.160.148', u'37.120.173.114', u'40.115.9.5', u'40.115.9.55', u'45.55.81.226', u'45.55.157.54', u'52.24.16.77', u'52.24.85.12', u'52.24.187.95', u'52.26.95.4']
+
+  data={"protocol":1,"requestType":"getInfo"}
+  data=json.dumps(data)
+  headers = {'content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
+
+  for n in nodes:
+    url="http://%s:%s/nhz" % (n, PORT)
+    print "%15s" % n,
+    try:
+      r=requests.post(url, data=data, headers=headers, timeout=1)
+    except:
+      print
+      continue
+
+    print r.status_code, 
+    j = r.json()
+    for k in ("version", "announcedAddress", "platform"):
+      print "%15s" % j.get(k, ""),
+    print
+
+
 if __name__=="__main__":
   print URL
   test1()
   test2()
+  test3()
+  test4()
+