Hi Chuck
I was hoping I could dig up something for you on t-mobile.com, but I don't
think I can yet. Some day maybe we can make that javascript from your
transcript just work. The thing about this T-Mobile site is that
they have done their coverage information as a graphical Google Map with
splotches of color for the levels. So that's dumb decisionmaking on their
part. What I did find was that in the bowels of the program, they do
have something that you can read as plain text. The coverage levels for a
particular city are retrieved using a long, ugly URL like:
http://www.t-mobile.com/srvspub/proxyeng?path=/Directory/RESTService/searchNearestAtPoint&point=-73%2042&table=PUBLIC;TMobileDomain//Coverage.Umts&coordSysIn=EPSG:4269&maxCandidates=1&distance=.001&distanceUnit=MI&name=MBB&criterion=Proximity&output=json
And where it says 'point=', it is accepting a latitude and longitude pair.
Like the latitude and longitude for Ghent, for instance. The output
contains something called CovClass, which I think is a number that ties
back to their coverage level- the answer you want.
{"EnvinsaResponse":{"type":"SearchResponse","featureCollection":{"distanceUnit":"MI","features":[{"distanceUnit":"MI","distance":"0.00000","attributes":[{"value":"4","name":"CovClass"}],"point":{"y":42,"x":-73}}],"coordSys":"epsg:4269"}}}
Of course you need a key to know what the value "4" means. So when does
this become more work than it is worth? You may be long gone to another
solution to your question in the time it would take to deal with all of
this. The reason I'm writing up this email is that I was excited
to find that it was not futile to go looking in the HTTP sessions for
plain text. (for this particular site, at least.) Potentially an edbrowse
user could disregard the bloated interface altogether, and plug the
latitude and longitude right into a srvspub/proxyeng URL. I don't know..
it could be a medium-difficulty page. Not as good as the ones where the
authors have made an effort to write a website that works in plain text,
but not as bad as some that have zilch apart from their graphics.
Kevin
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
Hi all,
Below is a capture of a very simple task that failed. I went to
www.tmobile.com, searched twice for an empty text entry field, and
attempted to submit my location (Ghent, NY) to determine the level of
signal I might expect here. Before activating the submit button, I
requested debug level 7, and then quit immediately that action failed.
The following is only 30 lines long, I hope it contaqins some
information that is meaningful to one of you, I don't know what to make
of it.
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
---- start script ---
Script started on Mon 04 Aug 2014 02:04:16 PM EDT
[chuckh@acer ~]$ edbrowse www.t-mobile.com
84591
[14:04:44] Ensighten> Bootstrap=nexus.ensighten.com/tmobile/prod/code/
[14:04:44] Ensighten> UTL:Helper Functions 20140318
[14:04:44] Inside Tracker Framework
[14:04:44] Ensighten: EDL Common Global
[14:04:45] Initializing with profile 12015924.
[14:04:45] Exception during init TypeError: a.parentNode is undefined
warning: http error 404, Not Found
line 1812: could not fetch javascript from
http://es.t-mobile.com/mpel.js?href=www.t-mobile.com&ref=&lang=english, code 404
5503
/<>
Search <> <Go>Search
/
<> <> CHECK COVERAGE
i1=Ghent, NY
<Ghent, NY> <> CHECK COVERAGE
db7
i*
scmd = *
findField returns 2.406
undoCompare no undo map
jSyncup starts
jSyncup ends
no javascript associated with this button
q
undoCompare strip 0
freeWindowLines = 301
freeWindowLines = 1913
[chuckh@acer ~]$
---- end script --
BTW, elinks still uses JS 1.85, and fails to even display the opening
screen.
Chuck
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Chuck in Ghent, northeast of Hudson on the Hudson.
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