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Posted: **Sun Oct 16, 2016 6:11 pm**

Hi, all!

I've looked through the many included examples that come with Core and I'm fairly certain I'm over complicating things. My ESP8266 automatically connects to my WiFi without issue. Now, all I want it to do is send one command.

Background:

I have hosted a PHP script that when ran with an API key will change a field in a database from 0 to 1. It is structured like http://website.com/api/index.php?key=123456789

How can I tell my ESP8266 to "go" to that URL? I don't care about any return or receiving of data, I just want to run that script with the key.

Thank you!

Posted: **Mon Oct 17, 2016 2:25 pm**

I want to reply to my own post with a link I found moments after submitting this topic. Adafruit did a really good job of writing a tutorial on this simple post here:https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah-esp8266-breakout/using-arduino-ide.

In particular, here's the main snippet I was going for:

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  // This will send the request to the server
  client.print(String("GET ") + url + " HTTP/1.1\r\n" +
               "Host: " + host + "\r\n" + 
               "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");

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