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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    Re: mod_perl2 custom form handler and Motorola i530 phone
From:       Rodger Castle <rodger () castlehollow ! com>
Date:       2005-08-27 14:19:33
Message-ID: 20050827141933.GC26335 () localhost ! localdomain
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Thank you, John,

The pages load fine and return 'something', but these extraneous characters are \
what's throwing things off. I'll keep plugging at it.

Rodger

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 04:43:51PM +0100, John ORourke wrote:
> I've had a little experience with mini-browsers... the simple view is 
> that it works on (presumably) quite a few other browsers (tried other 
> phones?), therefore it's likely a Motorola bug - they're not well known 
> for functional phone interfaces are they :)
> 
> The goal for small browsers is a small code base, so the HTML parsers 
> sometimes make quite a few assumptions and are less flexible than a 
> desktop browser.
> 
> Make your form HTML into XHTML/1.0 compliant HTML - in brief, use double 
> quotes around all attributes, and lower case for all tag and attribute 
> names, and give all attributes a value - eg:
> 
> <form method=post ACTION=/scripts/submit.pl> - WRONG
> <form method="post" action="/scripts/submit.pl" > - OK
> and
> <input type=checkbox name='something' value=1 checked> - WRONG
> <input type="checkbox" name="something" value="1" checked="checked" /> - 
> OK, note the trailing slash for single-tag elements
> 
> If that fails check the "Content-Type" and other headers in the form 
> submission from the phone, AFAIK the phone isn't obliged to submit the 
> POST data in the format you specify in the 'encode' attribute of the 
> form, it could be that your parser is making some assumptions that only 
> work for popular browsers.
> 
> If you're still reading, replace your parser with Apache::Request, it's 
> really easy to use and reads parameters for GET and POST requests 
> including file uploads. Its part of libapreq2 which can be 'fun' to 
> install :)
> 
> Also the phone should accept cookies but for maximum compatibility use 
> the Version=1 attribute, make sure there are no quotes around the Path 
> attribute, and use the Set-Cookie header, not Set-Cookie2.
> 
> hth,
> John
> 
> 
> Rodger Castle wrote:
> 
> > This is likely not a strictly mod_perl2 problem, but I'm not finding 
> > resolution elsewhere.
> > 
> > I have written a custom form data submission parser for our site. 
> > Admittedly, not one of my wiser decisions, but it works .. until now.
> > 
> > We have a customer trying to use a Motorola i530 phone with a portion of 
> > our site. Besides not accepting cookies, this phone is doing truly strange 
> > things with the form submission data. When we pull the form data, the 
> > field names have doubly-escaped 's and /s surronding the name in the form 
> > of %2527 and %255C. It's also putting in /' sequences before the requested 
> > URL like so .. /'/'/'quote.html
> > 
> > Would a more 'standard' form parser alleviate some of this or is this just 
> > a broken client. I really don't want to introduce a more heavyweight 
> > module just for this.
> > 
> > Thank you for any guidance that could be given.
> > 
> > Rodger
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 


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