[hobbit] Hobbit to IPPhone Beta

[Asif Iqbal]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Detlef Stracke
<Detlef.Stracke at mobilcom.de> wrote:
>  Hi Charles,
>
>  if I execute "execute_push", then I get this Error:
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>  <CiscoIPPhoneError Number="6" />

I am getting the exact same error too

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>  Authorization seems to be ok.
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>  -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>  Von: Charles Jones [mailto:jonescr at cisco.com]
>  Gesendet: Freitag, 21. März 2008 22:29
>  An: hobbit at hswn.dk
>  Betreff: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit to IPPhone Beta
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>  Charles Jones wrote:
>  > I've posted a beta of Hobbit2IPPhone here:
>  > http://www.the-ownage.com/?p=620
>  >
>  > This is a stable beta, I'm currently using it daily. There is still
>  > lots of work I need to do to make a real portable release, and a
>  > "services" version as well.
>  >
>  > Enjoy!
>  >
>  > -Charles
>  I just realized that I forgot to mention in the "docs" at the top of the
>  program that for this to work properly, you should run it out of cron
>  every minute, ie:
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>  $ crontab -l
>  * * * * * /var/www/perl/hobbit.cgi
>
>  You can run it from command-line manually for testing purposes.
>  Explanation of why it is run this way...You cannot just "push" XML to an
>  IPPhone to create menus and such. However, you can push a bit of XML
>  that instructs the phone to fetch a remote CGI, and that remote CGI can
>  have the XML for menus and such. In other words, the phone will only act
>  on code that IT fetches itself. The only thing you can push to it in one
>  action is the command to execute a remote CGI.
>
>  So, when hobbit.cgi is run from command-line (or cron), it does the
>  initial authentication to the IPPhone, and tells it to execute a remote
>  CGI, which happens to be the same hobbit.cgi program, except it passes
>  along some parameters that tell it to do the Hobbit stuff.
>
>  I know that is kind of confusing...its basically a cgi and command-line
>  program all in one.  If run from the command-line, it tells the phone to
>  fetch it via http along with parameters that make it act like a web CGI
>  instead.
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>  Anyhow running it out of cron every minute is the best way to keep it
>  running. I am experimenting with using meta-refresh instead, but so far
>  I don't like that, because if you exit the hobbit menu, it stops
>  refreshing and you have to kick it off again manually.
>
>  Ahh..the fun of beta software :)
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