Posted: February 09 2004 at 20:37 | IP Logged

I noticed that there is an index.wml file in the PH web folder! I just bought my first WAP-enabled phone and want to play, but, I'm getting a "502 bad gateway" on my phone when I try to log in. Hints?

Also, I figured out how to send a webcam image to my new phone! How cool is that?!

TIA - Tony

Posted: February 11 2004 at 09:20 | IP Logged

Tony,

Congrats on the new phone!!

If there is an index.wml file in the web folder, I would probably just delete it or rename it.  PowerHome contains an internal index.wml.  Now if you want to override the internal one and create your own customized one, then drop an index.wml in the web folder.

The 502 error is coming from your cell phone service provider.  PowerHome does not ever return that error code.  If you have T-Mobile (like I do), they block access to certain ports and that may be your problem.  From what Ive read and my own discovery, traffic only seems to get through on port 80 and port 8080.  Other providers may have similar restrictions.

Once you get the gateway problem cleared up, you can also get your webcam images on your cellphone via the web.  I use a PSP to zap a single image (jpg) from the webcam and save it to a file.  I then use a freeware utility called nconvert to convert the image to a resolution that fits my cellphone as well as make it a GIF.  The PSP then passes back a link to this file I created on the fly and Im able to view and refresh right from the phone .

Dave.

Posted: February 11 2004 at 14:25 | IP Logged

Good info, thanks! Your port comments make sense. I can already get to my webcam, plus, my phone resizes the image automagically. I'll be lowering the res, though, to help with the inherent WAP speeds!

Posted: February 12 2004 at 12:04 | IP Logged

I just found out that Cingular does not block any ports! I'm not sure where to go from here with respect to PH.

I'm even having trouble accessing wml pages through my normal web server, and, a server plugin in WinAmp (BrowseAmp).

Maybe a router issue? The problem with this theory is that using phone simulators I've downloaded, BrowseAmp works fine (even by accessing from the other side of the router).

Posted: February 12 2004 at 18:48 | IP Logged

Tony,

It occurred to me that I may not have documented in the beta how to access the internal WAP server .  If you were just trying to access the WAP server like you would the normal way and you were returning HTML, you would probably get your above error, since the Cingular gateway is not able to handle HTML.

There are a couple of ways to access the WAP server.  If you have a WML page in your webserver directory that you wish to access use: http://youripaddress/filename.wml.  PowerHome includes an internal page equivalent to an index.wml as: http://youripaddress/index.wml or http://youripaddress/ph-wap/main.  If you don't have an index.wml file in your web directory, then the first statement will pull the internal.  If index.wml does exist, then it will override the internal and will be used instead.  The /ph-wap/main will ALWAYS pull the internal.  This way you can mix and match internal and custom WML file you design.  You can also use PSP to return WML files...just be sure and use the ph_setwebcontenttype function to "text/vnd.wap.wml".

The current functionality of the internal WAP server is limited, but you can certainly expand it to however you like using both PSP and static WML pages.

The current internal pages are:/ph-wap/main, /ph-wap/system, /ph-wap/macros, /ph-wap/macrolist, /ph-wap/playmacro, /ph-wap/formula, and /ph-wap/evalformula.

Give this a try and let me know if this gets you further along .

Dave.

Posted: February 13 2004 at 10:17 | IP Logged

Well! Turns out my normal web server just needed some tweaking to properly serve the wml files. It works!

Now for PH...

Posted: February 13 2004 at 15:49 | IP Logged

Tony,

Glad to hear you've had some success.

I went ahead and tried guest access to your WAP server and had no problems.  I hit the web address in your user profile with the WAP tacked on: http://tonyno.ods.org:8000/ph-wap/main using the online WAP browser at http://www.gelon.net/.

Let me know if I can help you troubleshoot at all.

Dave.

Posted: February 13 2004 at 17:00 | IP Logged

The two WAP-phone simulators I downloaded don't work as well as that one! Thanks!

Dang! Maybe my wireless provider is choking on the authentication for some reason... I get the login prompt fine, then, the 502 comes right after that. Hmm. Wonder if my phone has cookies enabled...