Randy,
I was under the impression that once u are done using the iappli, and move
to a different site, the iappli gets deleted, but it seems like that's not
the case. since i am not in jp, so i have no idea how the 503s work..
(emulator is *THE* reality for me:(
-Ashish
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>KEITAI-L@appelsiini.net Subject: (keitai-l) Re: dynamic jam files,
>persistent storage and tracking the users of your IAppli Date: Wed, 28 Mar
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>Jason,
>
>I think any unique identifier would be fine including a session identifier.
>It's only possible to set the appParam when then Iappli is downloaded
>though and then it lives on until the user deletes the Iappli from their
>phone.
>
>Ashish,
>
>Funny that I never thought of that. It's much more straight forward
>solution. I guess the only downside would be that the user would have to
>fill in their username/password everytime they run the Iappli. The way I
>have it now they only sign in when they download the Iappli.
>
>-Randy
>
>P.S. I've been away on vacation, that's why this response was so slow.
>
>--- Jason Pollard wrote: > For a non-secure session tracking, couldn't you
>put > a session key in the > appparam? > > --Jason > >--- Ashish Agrawal
>wrote: >> it's an interesting way of doing authentication, >> but what does
>it buy you over lets say, having the user sign-in via the >> iappli itself,
>and then sending that user name over to the server each time >> ? or maybe
>i am just missing something. >> OR I guess i don't understand what u mean
>by signing in via a "basic authentication" >> >> -Ashish >> >> > >> > After
>writing an IAppli that periodically >> >downloaded data from a server, I
>wanted to see how >> >often a user was actually using the IAppli and also
> >> >determine how many users were using it at one time, >> >etc. The
>problem I found was that every http request >> >from the IAppli came in on
>a different IP port making >> >tracking pretty difficult. >> > >> > What I
>ended up doing was forcing the user to log >> >in before he/she downloaded
>the IAppli and then passed >> >this login name to the IAppli via the
>AppParam in the >> >jam file. >> > >> > Some more details of what I did are
>here (it's >> >not beautiful code by any means): >>
> >>http://www.randallmackay.com/identifyingTheUserOfYourIappli.htm >> > >>
> > I thought this trick might be useful for storing >> >down a user's
>preferences as well. As far as I know >> >you don't get any persistent
>storage on the phone but >> >you could store something down on a server and
> >> >retrieve it whenever the IAppli starts up. >> > >> >-Randy >> >
>
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