Can't Access WA00 on my phone

Wirelessly posted (SonyEricssonK850i/R1FA Browser/NetFront/3.4 Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

Seems to work correctly with my K850i.

 

Wirelessly posted (Treo Pro: Palm850/v0100 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11))

Works fine from my Treo Pro.

 

Wirelessly posted (Nokia E70-2: Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.1; U; en-us) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413 es70)

It's working fine for me too (from the E70).

 

I was never able to access the mobile site from my PDA devices (Pearl, Q, and now E63)... It senses that I am using a HTML browser and sends me to the regular page...

Am I missing something?

 

Seems fine for me and my HTC Touch Pro on Opera 9.5, but like you, can't access wa00.com on my Nokia N95-8GB. I just had to go to the regular wirelessadvisor.com link on the N95-8GB.

 

I can't get there either with the iPhone. I've always used the full site, which is better, and looks the same as on my pc/mac

 

Forgot to try my iPhone, but I guess I have same issue as you as well. Type in WA00.com - WAP entrance for WirelessAdvisor.com and it redirected me to www.wa00.com/wiforums/index. Page is blank except for "WirelessAdvisor.com" title on top of the page.

 

@Joe,

PLEASE, do not change anything that will redirect my mobile browser to wa00.com!

The WA experience on the iPhone safari browser is very rich and easy to navigate. I don't know why entering wa00.com gives me a blank page with only 'wirelessadvisor.com' on the page, but if you do fix this, please let me chose which experience I prefer.

I know that with my Nokia 6131, using opera, I could chose either site and it worked fine.

 

viewfly, I believe what RR is asking for will only affect the the WAP site (WA00.com) not the regular site (WirelessAdvisor.Com). It is not going to take away anything but add the option of the N95s and the IPhones to accesss the WAP site as most other phones can do. The choice would still be yours which site you wanted to use. Hope this helps.

RR, please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks Much

 

Charlyee, RR,

No misunderstanding here guys. I understood perfectly that the OP wanted to access the wa00.com from a mobile phone but got redirected to the full WA site instead.

If one wishes to go to wa00 for faster loading on any mobile, fix that; if one wishes to go to the full site on a mobile, keep that, and if one wanders to ww00 on a PC browser, and you wish to force them towards the full WA, that is fine too.

My 2cents twocents input was only a cautionary note not to break what is working perfectly for me.

As a very well respected intellectual once commented, "sometimes things happen that cause other things to happen"

 

I have seen this occasionally on the LG CU500. I believe that it's a memory issue - sometimes the browser runs out of memory and gives up. If this happens and I turn the phone off and on again, it usually starts working.

BTW, both sites, WA00 and WA (regular skin and mobile skin) work OK on the G1.



SW

 

I tried that but still no luck going to WA00.com - WAP entrance for WirelessAdvisor.com on the iPhone. However, the full version works though.

 

Does iPhone access other WAP sites without a problem?

 

Yes I can access other WAP sites. For example I cannot go to cnn.com ; I always get redirected to m.cnn.com and that loads fine.

I'd rather be able to go to the full site. But it works. Hence my concern with WA !

 

viewfly,I believe m.cnn.com is the mobile friendly version of the main site & not the wap site. Same difference as *WA Mobile Skin* (Mobile friendly version of the main site) & *WA00* (wap site).

Mine does the does the same thing with CNN btw.

Palm850/v0100 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)

 

It may be "flexible" — mobile skin for HTML browsers, WAP for WML. The real test is to go to a hard-coded WAP-only site. Here's one: http://midlet.org/wap/index.jsp

If you go there with a regular browser, you won't see anything at all (or it may download the file).

 

dmapr,

Your site listing above gives me a code listing only.

I googled a listing of wap sites. Most redirect to m. or mobile. sites. Others just redirect to the full site.

This one from Zagats did not (?). Here is a comparison between the wap and the full site. Is it really a wap?



and by clicking on the link at the bottom right (Go to Zagats.com), I get this:

 

viewfly,

any properly designed WAP site would look to see if the user agent (browser) sent information about accepting WAP content. If the browser does not accept it (like a desktop browser) then the site should redirect to a normal portal. There are other things the server can look at to try & determine whether or not it's a mobile device and use a "mobile skin" (usually just a site formatted to be viewed on a small screen and without Flash/Java/Ajax content). Hard-coding WML is a bad practice, although it makes for a good testing tool

Without looking at the actual page source I can't tell whether it's WAP or not. A WAP site would use WML instead of HTML. The lines blur a little with WAP 2.0 since HTML becomes an accepted format for the server (not so in WAP 1.0) but any true WAP browser should be able to display a WAP 1.0 site. If all you see is code on that site then iPhone is not WAP 1.0 capable.

I guess only Joe can tell us whether wa00.com is WAP 1.0 or WAP 2.0.

 

dmapr, if I go to my prefs on WA00 & then W&P Options, I get the following.

*WAP Options
Your WiDevice Only Supports WAP 2.0 (XHTML-MP)*

Does this signify anything to you?

Thank Much
Palm850/v0100 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)

 

I suppose

It tells me that wa00 is an intelligent site and determines the capabilities of your device before blasting the content back. For my SE it allows me to choose between WML (WAP 1.1) and XHTML-MP (WAP 2.0).

What I still don't know is:

• The list of the Accept headers each phone sends
• How wa00 deals with devices that don't support any WAP at all

 

You don't have to look for each device's profile. There are only so many content types you will decide to render. You can say that you support text/html, text/plain & a couple of others. Then check to see if you got a match and stream out

Looking for X-WAP-Profile header is even more intelligent than that However, client-side things like Javascript are error-prone and you want to do as much as possible on the server side. It's always better to redirect with a 302 response than with a Javascript or even a metatag.

 

As you may remember, my phone doesn't report the screen size correctly via Javascript — but generally supports it. There are phones with no support for Javascript. Bottom line, it's a thankless job trying to make a mobile portal.

 

dmapr,

so if you go to wap.zagat.com on a wap 1.0 device, do you get the same page as above? Charlyee??

I guess I should slip my sim into an older Nokia and give it a try.

In any case, not being able to go to a wap 1 site is not something i miss. That's the reason to have a good browser on the phone!

thanks for taking the time to l look into it.

vf

 

viewfly, I don't have a WAP 1.0 device. The wap.jagat.com on my Treo looks identical to the picture you posted.

For the record, I don't use the WAP site. I use the main site with the Mobile Skin & change to the standard skin when I need to obliterate spammers.
Palm850/v0100 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11)

 

viewfly.

I honestly don't know — I too could possibly try it on a 3100 which according to Phonescoop is a WAP 1.x device and compare to what a WAP 2.0 one shows.