RE: [misterhouse-users] WAP...

[Jeffrey A. F. <je...@fe...>]

> Cool ... our first WAP guy!  WAP: Wireless Application
> Protocol?  WML is XML
> for wireless, right??

Yep.  Then there are "Decks" and "Cards" within a wml page...The deck is
essentially the page, cards are various small wap-bite-sized chunks of the
deck...I think.  :) Right now, I'm doing single-deck, single-card. A good
basic intro/overview is at

http://www.wapdesign.org.uk/tutorial.html

Slightly more detail at
http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/training/WAP/WML.html

and you need these mime types:
.wml	text/vnd.wap.wml
.wmls	text/vnd.wap.wmlscript
.wbmp	image/vnd.wap.wbmp


> > Here's what I'm running in to...Using /SET commands don't work,
> > because WML
> > uses the $ structure to figure out variables. There's
> probably a way to
> > escape it, but since RUN commands seem to work just fine, I
>
> Dang.  Hmmm, if there is not escape mechanism, we should allow for a $
> substitute.  Should be pretty easy.

Its odd...I figured out it was doing substitution when I went to an
e-commerce page and everything that should have been $15.99 was $5.99...Tho
that may just be the way my phone handles the text...it shouldn't have a
problem when $ is in the text; only when its in the URL...   :) Still
haven't figured out how to escape the $ when it is part of the URL...

> Did you also try Bill's fix (in 2.32):  Cache-control: no-cache

I haven't been able to get 2.32 downloaded. Sourceforge, as is often the
case, only gives me about 100-200K then fails....the src_232.zip from your
/public directory is zero bytes.

> I created a mh/web/wap dir and put a modifed version of your
> test case in
> there.  Is .html still the proper extention for WML?

Actually, it's .wml  (.html will work, I've found...but .wml is the
"standard")

> You probably want to override the h_response field to something like
> last_response, so you get something your phone can display.
> For example:
>
>  <a href=/RUN:last_response?Display_the_next_deep_thought>Deep
> Thought</a><br>
>  <a href=/RUN:last_response?Show_internet_weather_forecast>Weather
> forecast</a><BR>

Hey, good idea...And I think I read somewhere that 2.32 will support
/RUN:Referrer?Turn_Living_Room_Light_On to return me back to the control
page....