WAPMail FAQ's

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions:

1. How do we avoid the user having to log in?

2. Can I make RS380 users see different buttons etc?

3. How do I register WAPMail?

Answers:

1. How do we avoid the user having to log in.

To avoid the login screen, the equivalent of a cookie is needed. Some wml clients already support cookies but many don't. However, some wap/wml support virtual cookies. As the wap gateway is speaking to a specific phone number is can provide to the browser a unique id for that phone. Once this mechanism is standardized, we will support it and provide a user option to avoid the login screen

2. Can I make RS380 users see different buttons.

Yes by picking up the user_agent and setting a different template set in the login page, or by setting different sections with a template. The standard login.wml does this and switches to template set 2 which is set in the wapmail.ini file to $templates/tpl_380 which contains a special set of templates for this phone. Login.wml can easily be extended to use other sets for other phones as these become available.

3. How do I register WAPMail?

You have to use a normal html web browser with an href like this http://mysite.com/scripts/wapmail.exe?cmd=register and then select Add WAP support from product list.