Emulators work, actual phones cant access index.wml

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April 28th, 2008, 06:38 PM

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WML - Emulators work, actual phones cant access index.wml

Hi guys, I'm new to wml and have been on this site all week learning and now I'm trying to create a sample wap portal to send games to a phone but having issues. our server is linux and running Apache and php5. I had my friend who knows linux put all the MIME types for .jar and .jad and .wml in where it should go. (I don't know linux). I think he said he made a separate mime file for them so that's the onlything different.

anyways, the OpenWave Simulator can load the portal and actually simulates downloading the game just fine. I also tried wapsilon emulator and it can see the portal and navigate up until the download because I'm spitting out the link in a .php file and wapsilon apparently doesn't like php.

my issue is when testing on actual phones they can't even access the portal. I have no clue why. the Sanya Katana and 7400 say no result or no page displayed. the Trio says "WML content contains invalid syntax". another says "error, bad gateway. the proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server".

I ran my index.wml through a Validator at http://www.w3schools.com/wap/wml_validate.asp and it says it's fine.

Here is the code for it just in case I'm missing something.

index.wml (I only have Games as a link for testing)

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.3//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml13.dtd">

<wml>

	<card id="Home" title="Fusion Mobile">  
        <img align="left" src="images/logo.png" alt="FusionMobile" /> 
        <p>
        	
            <table columns="2">                     
               	<tr>
                  <td> <img src="images/Games.png" alt="games" /> </td>
                  <td> <anchor> <go href="Games.wml#games"/>games </anchor> </td>                  
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td> <img src="images/Ringtones.png" alt="Ringtones" /> </td>
                  <td>Ringtones</td>                  
                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td> <img src="images/Wallpaper.png" alt="Wallpaper" /> </td>
                  <td>Wallpaper</td>                  
                </tr>               
          	</table>         
    	</p>
  	</card>	
    
</wml>

April 28th, 2008, 08:47 PM

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i changed my index.wml and copy and pasted a tutorial "hello world" to make sure it wasn't my code... the actual phone could view wap.yahoo.com but not my basic hello world... so that tells me it has to do with the server. any ideas what to look for? the phones that can't acces it at all are Sanya Katana, 7400 i think, Trio but yet my friend with a blackberry can view it.

is there some file you have to have that detects what phone it is and does something so they can see your portal and download your game?

OpenWave is telling me
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch10 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.Bc

April 30th, 2008, 01:26 AM

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Can you show your current code?
The first snippet you have shown is invalid wml for the header you are using...
Is your server actually serving .wml as wml?

You may want to consider using XHTML MP if your targeted device is a blackberry or
other modern devices.

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April 30th, 2008, 06:49 AM

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Here's my stripped down index.wml
my target audience is all phones basically. sanya katana, treo, etc. from what I read my buddy set up the server so the default is index.wml and he put the mime types that I found for .wml, .jad, .jar. maybe I'm missing one? can you tell me what my header should be for any random phone to view this basic index.wml?

I'll read up on xhtml mp and see if I can try that. should I switch to using wml 2.0 at least?

index.wml

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.3//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml13.dtd">

<wml>

	<card id="Home" title="Test">  
        <img align="left" src="images/logo.png" alt="Test" /> <br/>
        <p>
        	<br/><img src="images/Games.png" alt="games" /> <a href="Games.wml#games">Games</a>  <br/>            
            
            <img src="images/Ringtones.png" alt="Ringtones" />  Ringtones  <br/>                            
            <img src="images/Wallpaper.png" alt="Wallpaper" /> Wallpaper <br/>                 
    	</p>
  	</card>	
    
</wml>

April 30th, 2008, 09:42 AM

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I changed it to xhtml mp. let me know if this looks correct now for all phones to see

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>xHTML MP test</title>
  </head>

  <body>
	<p><img src="images/logo.png" alt="logo" /></p>
    <p><img src="images/Games.png" alt="Games" /><a href="Games.xhtml">Games</a></p>
    <p><img src="images/Ringtones.png" alt="Ringtones" />Ringtones</p>
    <p><img src="images/Wallpaper.png" alt="Games" />Wallpaper</p>
  </body>
</html>

May 1st, 2008, 03:52 AM

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You should have the following in the <head> of your document..

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Change the content to whatever you are sending the content as..

There are validators on the web that you can test pages offline as well as online(i.e. direct input) - try some of them out.

See the WAP FAQs for more details on this..

Good luck. Making progress

You may want to investigate png support for your targeted devices

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May 2nd, 2008, 02:16 PM

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ok, thanks for the heads up on the png. i changed them to .jpg and seem to work now. I'm a little confused as to when you put that meta tag in your <head>. If I just want to test sending them a .jar when they click a link below, when do I put the
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/java-archive"> in? I can't put this meta in my Games.xhtml below because it won't load at all. can you look at code below and see what i need change to send a .jar when they click? thank you!

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
    <title>test</title>
  </head>
  
  <body>

	<p>Click game below to test download<br/><br/></p>
    <p><a href="games/0001.jar"><img src="images/games/0001.jpg" alt="0001" /></a></p>
    <p><a href="games/0002.jar"><img src="images/games/0002.jpg" alt="0002" /></a></p> <br/>    
    
    
    <p><a href="index.xhtml"><img src="images/Home.jpg" alt="Home" /></a></p>
  </body>

</html>