Re: mod_perl/Apache troubles with cell phone

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Rodger Castle wrote:

>I've been pulling my hair out this evening trying to resolve a problem serving content to a cell phone.
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>Phone is a LG VX-4500.  I've written a simple handler as a start to just send "Hello" to the phone along with a Content-Length and Connection: Close header but the phone just times out.  With a browser, all is well.  File-based (non mod_perl) content gets to the phone fine, it's only the mod_perl content that is timing  out.  I can see the requests coming and going in the logs.  It looks like the data just never gets sent back to the phone.
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>Running:
>Debian Sarge
>Apache 2.0.52
>mod_perl2
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>Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
>
>Rodger
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>
The first step is setting up a static wml file - a tiny hello world file 
named index.wml (make sure it has a .wml extension).  Now try to view 
that.  If that doesn't work, you're problem has nothing to do with 
mod_perl.  If it does, then you've got more work to do.  And if you've 
done this already... sorry to waste your time.  :)  And if your phone 
has a normal web browser instead of a WAP browser, ignore this 
entirely... but I'm assuming you're using a WAP browser.

I'm far from an expert, as I just started playing with WAP and WML a few 
weeks ago, but unless content-type isn't coming out correctly, your 
issue isn't mod_perl related.  You're best bet is to hit a 
WAP/WML-specific forum or mailing list for help.

Ultimately, when in doubt, try things in static pages first, and when 
you get that working, try the same thing under mod_perl.  If that 
doesn't work, use telnet to connect to your web server and request the 
document to see what exactly it's doing.  After that, it's likely to be 
obvious.

-ofer