[tommy.hanks]

Hello everyone,

I was recently asked to come up with a creative solution for distributing my company's emergency call list to key personel. One of our developers suggested doing a Browser-Channel push to the Blackberry devices that contains a list of the people and their information. From what I understand the push stores the content in the Blackberry's browser cache and puts an icon on the main screen so that you can access the content that is in the cache. My question is, how long will that content last? Because if worst case scenario, our BES server is down I we won't be able to push the content again in case that cache expires.

Thanks,

Tom

[fbrimm]

Hi Tom,

According to the RIM documentation, you determine when it can expire. If you do nothing, it will expire in 12 hours.

If you search the RIM site you should find a document called Advanced Browser Development-Developing Browser Push Applications that should answer most of your questions.

RIM also has a nice article in their Developer's Journal that includes a demo app for experimenting with broswer push.
http://www.blackberry.com/developers...lication.shtml

fbrimm

[KrunchBerry]

I have an 8700c. I inadvertently deleted my entire web browser while attempting to delete another third-party application. In doing so, I deleted my Cingular browser, Web browser and the other program that allows you to create email addresses. Would you be able to help me get these restored on my device?

[EricaJ1074]

In application loader, there is a checkbox that you need to check in order to reload the browser. Then after that is done, go to Options>Advanced Options>Host Routing Table>Register Now and resend the service books which will also resent the Download Fun, Enterprise Activation, Setup Internet Email, and Browser icons.

Then go to your carriers site, and resend the service books to be able to send/receive email again.

Not familiar with browser push but someone else might be.

[tommy.hanks]

Sorry it has taken me so long to follow this up. After much trial and error I have finally done it. I have created an application that pushes out my company's emergency contact listing. With fbrimm's hint of the cache timeout period I was able to do a little more research about the issue and complete a process that will push content that will stay on the BlackBerry until I want it off. I don't know how many of you out there actually use Visual Basic, but it is the standard development platform at the company I work for, so my code is in that language. The most important part of the code as far as I'm concerned is the part that sets the headers of the data being pushed, so I have included them in this post.

Request.Headers.Add("Content-Location", "ECL")
Request.Headers.Add("Expires", Date.Now.AddDays(30).ToString)
Request.Headers.Add("X-RIM-Push-Title", "Emergency Contact Listing")
Request.Headers.Add("X-RIM-Push-Type", "Browser-Channel")
Request.Headers.Add("X-RIM-Push-Channel-ID", "ECL")

As you can see there is a header that is called "Expires", complicated stuff. All I have done is set the expires date to be 30 days after the current date, which would be the day that the content is pushed. You can set this to whatever you want, I just thought that 30 days would be a nice number, that I could get behind. My boss thought it was nice too, so there you go. If anyone would like to see any more of the code that I wrote for this little application just let me know, I'm more than willing to share.

Thanks,

T

[bbmann5k+]

Originally Posted by tommy.hanks

Sorry it has taken me so long to follow this up. After much trial and error I have finally done it. I have created an application that pushes out my company's emergency contact listing. With fbrimm's hint of the cache timeout period I was able to do a little more research about the issue and complete a process that will push content that will stay on the BlackBerry until I want it off. I don't know how many of you out there actually use Visual Basic, but it is the standard development platform at the company I work for, so my code is in that language. The most important part of the code as far as I'm concerned is the part that sets the headers of the data being pushed, so I have included them in this post.

Request.Headers.Add("Content-Location", "ECL")
Request.Headers.Add("Expires", Date.Now.AddDays(30).ToString)
Request.Headers.Add("X-RIM-Push-Title", "Emergency Contact Listing")
Request.Headers.Add("X-RIM-Push-Type", "Browser-Channel")
Request.Headers.Add("X-RIM-Push-Channel-ID", "ECL")

As you can see there is a header that is called "Expires", complicated stuff. All I have done is set the expires date to be 30 days after the current date, which would be the day that the content is pushed. You can set this to whatever you want, I just thought that 30 days would be a nice number, that I could get behind. My boss thought it was nice too, so there you go. If anyone would like to see any more of the code that I wrote for this little application just let me know, I'm more than willing to share.

Thanks,

T

[tommy.hanks]

It's on its' way!

[bbmann5k+]

Originally Posted by tommy.hanks

It's on its' way!

What version of .NET are you using?

[tommy.hanks]

I'm using VB.Net 2005.

[jjay2456]

Do you need a BES in order for this to work?

[dcpuser]

Hey all,

I hate to ressurect an old topic but I am having difficulty getting my pushed ECL to stay on the handheld after 12 hours. The link to the article on blackberry.com mentions nothing of eliminating the cache timer. I've also tried the above method by adding this line into the BrowserChannelPusher.java file and it still doesn't work.

This is what the code looks like:

{
String urlBase = _props.getWebContextRoot();

con.setRequestProperty("Content-Location", urlBase + "/ecl.html");
con.setRequestProperty("Expires", Date.Now.AddDays(30).ToString);
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/html");
con.setRequestProperty("X-RIM-Push-Title", _props.getChannelName());
con.setRequestProperty("X-RIM-Push-Type", "Browser-Channel");
con.setRequestProperty(
"X-RIM-Push-Channel-ID", urlBase + "/ecl.html");
con.setRequestProperty(
"X-RIM-Push-UnRead-Icon-URL", urlBase + "/ecl_unread_icon.gif");
con.setRequestProperty(
"X-RIM-Push-Read-Icon-URL", urlBase + "/ecl_read_icon.gif");
}


The bold text is the line I added. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[tommy.hanks]

I have no knowledge of Java syntax, I know the code sample that I posted was in VB.Net.

[dcpuser]

Tommy, thanks. Can you tell me where you got the VB sourcecode from or was this an app you coded yourself? I'm a total newbie with this.

EDIT: Oh nevermind, I see that you created the app yourself. Is there a template you followed to build this or can you point me in the right direction on how? I'd like to do the exact same thing with the ECL.

[tommy.hanks]

I coded the above myself.

the new head <dot> net: Visual Basic .NET Archives

There is some rough code that I put together a while back. Maybe that will help.

[lacity]

Hello, we have run into a similar issue as this. Could you send me the VB code for this? We would appreciate it!

Originally Posted by tommy.hanks

Sorry it has taken me so long to follow this up. After much trial and error I have finally done it. I have created an application that pushes out my company's emergency contact listing. With fbrimm's hint of the cache timeout period I was able to do a little more research about the issue and complete a process that will push content that will stay on the BlackBerry until I want it off. I don't know how many of you out there actually use Visual Basic, but it is the standard development platform at the company I work for, so my code is in that language. The most important part of the code as far as I'm concerned is the part that sets the headers of the data being pushed, so I have included them in this post.

Request.Headers.Add("Content-Location", "ECL")
Request.Headers.Add("Expires", Date.Now.AddDays(30).ToString)
Request.Headers.Add("X-RIM-Push-Title", "Emergency Contact Listing")
Request.Headers.Add("X-RIM-Push-Type", "Browser-Channel")
Request.Headers.Add("X-RIM-Push-Channel-ID", "ECL")

As you can see there is a header that is called "Expires", complicated stuff. All I have done is set the expires date to be 30 days after the current date, which would be the day that the content is pushed. You can set this to whatever you want, I just thought that 30 days would be a nice number, that I could get behind. My boss thought it was nice too, so there you go. If anyone would like to see any more of the code that I wrote for this little application just let me know, I'm more than willing to share.

Thanks,

T

[tommy.hanks]

the new head <dot> net: July 2006 Archives

The above link contains a post I did on my website. In that post is the source code to an early version of my BlackBerry MDS class library that I wrote. Hopefully that should be sufficient for you to get a good idea of how to do what you want to do.

[balaji6969]

hi
Can i get full code in java for http push demo.Or please mention a good link for this.
Regards,
Balaji.K