wapRT Technology Preview 1

Best Practical Solutions, LLC, is pleased to announce the immediate
availability of wapRT Technology Preview Release 1.

wapRT allows you to create, search for and display tickets (including full
ticket history) from any WAP-enabled phones, Palms and other devices.
With wapRT, you now have immediate wireless access to your local RT instance,
whether you’re in a meeting, on site in a data center, at a client site or
down at the local pub after a hard day at work.

This is an initial release of a component which will be included in a
future release of RT. The author finds it useful, but makes no warrantee
about its utility or stability. If you’re interested in hacking on or
extending this product or want to report issues with it, please send
email to rt-devel@lists.fsck.com.

If you have a need for a stable, functional version of this product, please
contact sales@bestpractical.com to discuss your requirements.

Known issues in this release:

  • Search results may be too long for some WAP browsers

  • Can’t set or update keywords or relationships

  • Currently needs to be installed inside /NoAuth, because wapRT
    does its own non-cookie-based authentication

  • Need to log into /NoAuth/w/. /NoAuth/w won’t currently work

AVAILABILITY

wapRT Technology Preview 1 can be downloaded from:
http://fsck.com/pub/rt/devel/waprt-preview-1.tar

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Copy the “w” directory to rt/local/WebRT/html/NoAuth/w/

Browse http://your-rt-instance/NoAuth/w/ with your WAP client
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

Copy the “w” directory to rt/local/WebRT/html/NoAuth/w/

Browse http://your-rt-instance/NoAuth/w/ with your WAP client

I’m getting a directory index error since I don’t have that turned on in
Apache.

[Thu Feb 7 08:40:53 2002] [error] [client 68.5.32.175] Directory index
forbidden by rule: /opt/rt2/WebRT/html/NoAuth/w/

I took a guess that “login” would be starting page. Occassionally Apache
will dump core:

[Thu Feb 7 08:47:40 2002] [notice] child pid 27022 exit signal Segmentation
Fault (11)

Browse http://your-rt-instance/NoAuth/w/ with your WAP client

I’m getting a directory index error since I don’t have that turned on in
Apache.

[Thu Feb 7 08:40:53 2002] [error] [client 68.5.32.175] Directory index
forbidden by rule: /opt/rt2/WebRT/html/NoAuth/w/

I took a guess that “login” would be starting page.

actually, there’s a “dhandler” file in the w/ directory that should be
taking care of that for you. are you using mod_perl or fastcgi? did you
install waprt’s “w” in local/WebRT/html/NoAuth ?

My bad - installed in /opt/rt2/WebRT instead of local. Works without errors
now. Thanks.