>...if the web browser and email (and other) apps
>are able to resolve IP addresses, and receive (and send) data to machines that
>only understand that kind of data (IP), I find it very unlikely that it's
>"impossible" to acheive the tasks I've described.
Palm VII devices send their communications through a proxy server which
connects the BellSouth network (i.e. the wireless net used by current Palm
VII devices) to the internet. That proxy (currently) only does http and
https, so other communications protocols really are not possible through
that route.
So it isn't a technical impossibility, but would require changes to the
device as well as to our server to accomplish, since it certainly wasn't
the design goal of the product. Right now there's no way to get there from
here through our proxy on any protocol other than http.
Hmm, now that my mind is going in more creative directions, one could do
some interesting hacks, putting a http shim server on your own machine,
which spoke http to the device and interfaced that with telnet doing
line-by-line or something... again it'd be slow and expensive, but if as
you say it'd prevent $10,000 a minute downtime, lots of unreasonable things
become reasonable :-) Generic tty lives again... anyone want to take a
stab at it?
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
