Posting data with ESP8266 module? [duplicate]

Question

I have an ESP8266 module attached to an Arduino Uno that is connected to my local network. On the network, at address 192.168.1.13, I have a nodejs/express server running on port 3000. How would I go about posting an eight digit number from the Arduino to the webserver? In my current attempts the server console isn't receiving any data when using AT+CIPSEND while connected to it.

EDIT: My Code is as follows:

     #include <SoftwareSerial.h>

const byte rxPin = 9; // Wire this to Tx Pin of ESP8266
const byte txPin = 10; // Wire this to Rx Pin of ESP8266

// We'll use a software serial interface to connect to ESP8266
SoftwareSerial ESP8266 (rxPin, txPin);

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  ESP8266.begin(9600); // Change this to the baudrate used by ESP8266
  delay(1000); // Let the module self-initialize
  Serial.println("Sending an AT command...");
  ESP8266.println("AT+CWMODE=1");
  delay(1000);
  ESP8266.println("AT+CWJAP=\"username\",\"pass\"");
  delay(10000);
  ESP8266.println("AT+CIPMODE=1");
  delay(1000);
  ESP8266.println("AT+CIPSTART=\"TCP\",\"192.168.1.13\test\",3000");
  delay(1000);
  GetData();

}
void loop() {
 while (ESP8266.available()){
     String inData = ESP8266.readStringUntil('\n');
     Serial.println("Got reponse from ESP8266: " + inData);
  }
}
void GetData(){
  ESP8266.println("AT+CIPSEND=4");
  ESP8266.print("test");
}

and My output is this

  Sending an AT command...
Got reponse from ESP8266: AT+CWMODE=1


Got reponse from ESP8266: 

Got reponse from ESP8266: OK

Got reponse from ESP8266: AT+CWJAP="surveillancevan4","7073199495"


Got reponse from ESP8266: AT+CIPSEND=4


Got reponse from ESP8266: testI

EDIT 2: I modified my code to this

    #include <SoftwareSerial.h>

const byte rxPin = 9; // Wire this to Tx Pin of ESP8266
const byte txPin = 10; // Wire this to Rx Pin of ESP8266
// We'll use a software serial interface to connect to ESP8266
SoftwareSerial ESP8266 (rxPin, txPin);

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  ESP8266.begin(9600); // Change this to the baudrate used by ESP8266
  ESP8266.println("AT");
  delay(1000);
  ESP8266.println("AT+CIPSTART=\"TCP\",\"192.168.1.13\",3000");
  delay(20000);
  String request = "POST /test HTTP/1.0 \r\n";
  ESP8266.println("AT+CIPSEND=19");
  delay(5000);
  ESP8266.println(request);



}

void loop() {
 while (ESP8266.available()){
     String inData = ESP8266.readStringUntil('\n');
     Serial.println("Got reponse from ESP8266: " + inData);
  }
}

and now my output claims it posted successfully, but I'm still not seeing any data in my nodejs server. Here is the output: Got reponse from ESP8266:

AT


Got reponse from ESP8266: 

Got reponse from ESP8266: OK

Got reponse from ESP8266: AT+CIPSTART="TCP","192.168.1.13",3000


Got reponse from ESP8266: CONNECT

Got reponse from ESP8266: 

Got reponse from ESP8266: O 



Got reponse from ESP8266: busy sytes

Got reponse from ESP8266: 

Got reponse from ESP8266: SEND OK

I can confirm that it is connecting to my web app because when I run the code on the module without the server running it returns an error.

Answer 1

 ESP8266.println("AT+CIPSTART=\"TCP\",\"192.168.1.13\test\",3000");

That line is going to fail miserably for a number of reasons:

1. You need to provide an IP address or domain name - NOT a URL
2. Even if you could provide a URL this bit 192.168.1.13\test would end up, after C escaping, as 92.168.1.13 est since \t is a TAB character.

And then on top of all that I assume you are connecting to a HTTP server, yet you aren't sending a HTTP request, you are just sending the word "test", which the HTTP server has no hope of ever understanding.

You need to formulate and send a proper HTTP request and send it to the server. I suggest you go and look at a few tutorials and maybe look up how HTTP Servers actually operate and what the protocol looks like.