[Asterisk-Users] Polycom Microbrowser

[John Baker]

By the way, would your php system happen to be from Enterprise Payroll 
Systems?  Like the one at http://epayroll.sourceforge.net/ ?

John

John Baker wrote:
> 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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