[Asterisk-Users] Polycom Microbrowser

[John Baker]

David - 

This is excellent work.  I've spent three weeks trying to get something,
anything out of Polycom on the microbrowser.  It seems that they
released the capability around the 1st of August, but were waiting until
the first of October to release supporting documentation!

You have to sign a non-disclosure agreement with no support to get what
they have in the way of documentation.

Nice phone, but support with Polycom is horrible.

John


On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 15:20, David Gomillion wrote:
> I have just spent the morning playing around with a Polycom IP600's
> microbrowser.  Everything is working pretty well.  In answer to the
> question of what type of XML it runs, it appears to be more or less
> XHTML-compliant.  I have created a basic set of web pages allowing users
> to clock in and out against our MySQL timeclock system, running a PHP
> back-end.  It's running like a champ.
>  
> Please refer to the Administrator's guide, pages 106, 107, and 53 to get
> it set up correctly.
>  
> When creating web applications, be very careful about syntax.  Here's a
> few gotcha's that I have found:
>  
> WRONG:
> <input type="text" name="myfield">
> <input type="submit" value="Click Me">
>  
> RIGHT:
> <input type="text" name="myfield" />
> <input type="submit" value="Click Me" />
>  
> Notice the little slash on the end.  This is very XML-based, so you MUST
> have perfectly balanced tags.  Most browsers are intelligent enough to
> ignore little errors like these, but the polycom browser is very touchy.
>  
> Forget about <i> and <b> tags, they work if you remember the </i> and
> </b> counterparts, but don't seem to make much of a difference.  Same
> with <small>.
>  
> Other things I have noticed: selects (i.e. drop-down menus) don't seem
> to work, using a <br> gave me problems, and tables look like crap, so
> just use paragraphs.  One thing to note is that the title of the page
> will appear at the top, centered, so give your pages good titles.
>  
> One important security note, I have not yet found a way to clear or
> limit the history.  So, if I press the back button 3 or 4 times, I tend
> to get re-clocked-out and other fun stuff.  I'm using server sessions,
> but it seems that the phone will keep those alive between times you
> press the "services" button.  If anybody finds a setting to fix this,
> let me know.  For now, I have set some session variables to allow an
> authentication to only be used one time before resetting it.  My next
> try will be setting 30-second sessions for PHP, but I really want the
> sessions to reset when the user switches away from the microbrowser.
>  
> Thanks,
> David
>  
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