h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Is this an all English instruction? I mean, you really don't want us other folks out in the Universe to make a call to England just to hook up to the h2g2 page? So why don't you tell people to make a bookmark at mobile.h2g2.com/ to access the page through whatever WAP provider they are using. Works fine with my settings

You're absolutely right! Unfortunately, I don't have any details on the WAP settings of any mobile operators outside the UK.

Perhaps you could list the ones you use here and we could create a WAP settings reference page for anyone wherever they might be!

P.S. The original idea for putting the Vodafone settings up was that we were having problems with the gateway software that some operators were using and Vodafone definitely worked. Most of these problems have now been ironed out (and the gateway applications have gone through several bug-fixing releases).

The only problem I'm currently aware of is that BT Cellnet's gateway doesn't allow you to make bookmarks (crap isn't it) and, more importantly, doesn't deal with cookies. This means that phones with Phone.com browsers in them won't be able to get to the My Journal page. As far as I'm aware this is because BT Cellnet are using a crippled version of the Phone.com gateway - they've disabled bookmarks and cookies...

Any way around this or do we just need to put up with it?

For a start we can lobby BT to fix their service... mailto:[email protected]

Seriously, we hope to get listed on the portals of all the major operators at some point. This will solve the bookmark problem - you won't have to bookmark us, 'cos the operator will have already done this for you! Lobbying BT can only help us one this one

The lack of cookies is a bit harder to deal with. Cookies are part of the Phone.com browser specification, but the browser relies on the gateway to provide this service. BT is actually using Phone.com's gateway, but they appear to have disabled this feature (or not paid for it?) and there's no way that we can detect this other than checking where each and every request is coming from and providing a special case for BT Cellnet subscibers...

For the moment then, the ball is in BT's court. Sorry.

Did that (place a bookmark at mobile.h2g2.com/, but did not work. (Got message "can not display page".) Any suggestions??

Can you give me details on which phone and operator you are using?

Thanks!