Re: mod_perl/Apache troubles with cell phone

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Thanks to all for all the suggestions.  I've been afk for a couple days.

This particular phone uses a 'standard' html browser, i.e. the content doesn't have to be wml.  We've worked with a few of these before now.

I got around the immediate problem by a per-file <Location> directive for the particular script in question and writing it with CGI.pm with no problems.

In response to some other suggestions on this thread, the access log shows the same entry for the cell phone as it does with a normal browser (IE, Opera and Firefox) with the exception of User Agent.  There are no entries in the error log for these requests.

I'll be reviewing the suggestions made and posting my results to this thread as soon as I get settled back in from my trip.  8 hours in a van with 2 toddlers is a bit distracting.

Again, thanks for all the help.

Rodger

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:16:02 -0800
Ofer Nave <onave@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:

> Rodger Castle wrote:
> 
> >I've been pulling my hair out this evening trying to resolve a problem serving content to a cell phone.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Running:
> >Debian Sarge
> >Apache 2.0.52
> >mod_perl2
> >
> >Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
> >
> >Rodger
> >  
> >
> 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
> 
> 
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