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woodnutt

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#1718 15-Jun-2004 16:43

I have desgined a wap site. It currently works fine with all telecom phones that I have tried it on. But when I have used vodapone phones I get an error to the effect that the phone cannot display the content. I have verified all my wap code using the opera validation function. I have previewed the site with emulators of gprs phones and they have work as designed.

Below is the code that has been causing the error:
// --- source code --- //

BWA Group

m-Compliance

Home

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User: Brendan Woodnutt (Demo)

// -- //

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70 posts

Master Geek

#6591 15-Jun-2004 18:57

Hi,

Yes it can be very frustrating, seems odd that you can veiw through a Telecom phone. As WAP is a standard.

Without knowing the url you are using it is had to check. WAP coding one wrong peice of code it dont work.

To get my wap site working I went to http://tagtag.com and downloaded DotWAP 2.0 its free and uploaded this to my web site.

Emulators dont always work.

for more info see http://www.gsmmobile.co.nz/Wap.htm

taniwha

961 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#6625 17-Jun-2004 11:37

Hi woodnut
Definitely sounds like the cause is something in the vodafone wap gateway

b from c here :-)
i tried the URL you sent me - and i got "Your client is not allowed to access the requested object" on teh first page..
is this an error from your code?

woodnutt

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#6626 17-Jun-2004 12:09

Cheers MobileGuy, have looked at tagtag site and will use it to test the code. My problem is my code is generated by php. Could be something real simple. Let you know how it goes.

hi taniwha, it isn't a error that my code generates. yeah still not sure whats up. I am going to try the tagtag simluator as it is causing some errors at the moment. testing it with that at the moment.

taniwha

961 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#6628 17-Jun-2004 12:23

i tried from vodafone T39, and i'm not allowed in :-(
from the telecom T206, i'm browsing your WAP site jsut fine...

What's up with vodafone? are they restricting what wap sites you can get into??

taniwha

961 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#6629 17-Jun-2004 12:28

that's dumb... :-S i mistyped teh URL on the vodafone handset..

okay, i see now.
I can log in on the Tcom phone just fine
but on the vfone there's no login button.

woodnutt

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#6630 17-Jun-2004 12:34

do you think it could be something to do with using templates for links for the whole deck with vodaphone.

taniwha

961 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#6633 17-Jun-2004 14:05

Hey woodnut.. i di a wget of the login page, and it looks like the <wml> tag is never closed.

No, i'm wrong.. wget isn't doing what i wanted

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taniwha

961 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#6634 17-Jun-2004 14:05

I'm hoping someone who know more about vodafone + wap will know why there's no login button from this wml:

<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml"> <wml> <card id="splash" title="Welcome!"> <onevent type="ontimer"> <go href="#Login"/> </onevent> <timer name="delay" value="30"/> <p align="center"><img src="../Images/bwalogo.wbmp" alt="BWA Group"/><br/> <small><i>m</i>-Compliance Service</small></p> </card> <card id="Login" title="Bwa Group m-Compliance"> <do type="accept" label="login"> <go href="MainMenu.php" method="get"> <postfield name="UName" value="$uname"/> <postfield name="PWord" value="$pword"/> </go> </do> <p> Username:<input name="uname" type="text" size="15"/><br/> Password:<input name="pword" type="password" size="15"/><br/> </p> </card> </wml>

woodnutt

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#6636 17-Jun-2004 14:40

Have tested static and dynamic sites on the tagtag system and it works fine. But still not liking vodaphone phones. Wonder if its a php thing?

taniwha

961 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#6637 17-Jun-2004 14:53

first i removed the first card - so it became:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml"> <wml> <card id="Login" title="Bwa Group m-Compliance"> <do type="accept" label="login"> <go href="MainMenu.php" method="get"> <postfield name="UName" value="$uname"/> <postfield name="PWord" value="$pword"/> </go> </do> <p> Username:<input name="uname" type="text" size="15"/><br/> Password:<input name="pword" type="password" size="15"/><br/> </p> </card> </wml>
then i put through the w3c validator - and the result was:

This page is not Valid -//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN!

Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with
an SGML parser.

Line 7, column 43: character data is not allowed here
<postfield name="UName" value="$uname"/>

You have used character data somewhere it is not permitted to appear.
Mistakes that can cause this error include putting text directly in the
body of the document without wrapping it in a container element (such as
a <p>aragraph</p>) or forgetting to quote an attribute value
(where characters such as "%" and "/" are common, but cannot appear
without surrounding quotes).

woodnutt

10 posts

Wannabe Geek

#6640 17-Jun-2004 16:09

which SGML parser are you using

taniwha

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Ultimate Geek

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#6642 17-Jun-2004 16:15

http://validator.w3.org/

using the uploader

Mobileguy

70 posts

Master Geek

#6643 17-Jun-2004 16:46

Hi all,

No matter what you you do it it wont work unless your coding is 100 % correct. What I mean is wap WML is very strict its not html or php.

The only way I got access to my site on my Vodafone mobile was use the http://tagtag.com and downloaded DotWAP 2.0 its free.

This is because its codes wml correctly and the Nokia WAP gateway (Its nothing to do with Vodafone) understands this.

I tried all sorts of recoding in wml and tagtag is the quickest and easist. I am a cut and past merchant so I could not advise what the corect wml code would be I just know how to get a wap site working on a Vodafone mobile.

Cheers

taniwha

961 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#6644 17-Jun-2004 17:06

i've found out why we don't use postfields here ... some phones don't support them
(i was warned off them long ago)
you can use fieldsets instead.
i can mock up how that would work, some i get a chance - but you can probably work it out yourself.

taniwha

961 posts

Ultimate Geek

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#6645 17-Jun-2004 17:08

Yeah, mobile guy.. yes, wml is a b*tch..
I have my own php library for doing such things - but 90% of my work has been for telecom - vodafone seems to do everything inhouse, so no work for me :-(

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