Madgat: session handling, cookies, “don’t strip” setting
Few updates to Madgat this afternoon:
- session handling - now returns a cookie and uses the session behind that to save state/settings
- cookies - uses the curl built in cookie handling to manage cookies manipulated by the target site
- option to not strip - there’s a seperate settings form, which includes an option to not strip the content. In that case all the URLs are rewritten but the content isn’t stripped. A div is inserted immediately after the starting body tag with the madgat links and destination form.
Few other minor tweaks and tidbits that fell out of getting that stuff working, but nothing else major. Still need to get WURFL support in there, and a bunch of additional tools.
May 15th, 2006 at 6:41 am
What kind of service is MagDat ? Could you explain me ?
thanks
May 15th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Hey Marco, it’s a transcoder like Phonifier, Skweezer, or the services used by Google, Yahoo, or AOL mostly for search results. I’m working on some basics now, but I have a few interesting things I would like to do with it longer term. And I’m developing it open source, like Phonifier, which will hopefully get some additional developers involved in working on mobile access.
May 15th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
thanks … We’re working on a mobile web service so I was curios :)
May 16th, 2006 at 4:28 am
you sly dog.
i just realized that magdat is easy to remember and easy to type using a phone keypad.
you rock.
May 28th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
Madgat looks nice. I’m glad someone is working on enhancing Phonifier.
I did a bunch of posts last year comparing all the mobile transcoders including Phonifier. The first one is here: http://wapreview.com/blog/?p=26. I might have to do an update to cover Madgat :).
Do you have any plans to break up long pages into smaller chunks. A lot of mainstream phones are severely memory bound and can’t handle pages much over 10 KB. The Google, AOL and Skweezer transcoders split pages but not Phonifier.
What’s the purpose of the “don’t strip” option. It seems like it just resizes the images. Is that to reduce bandwidth requirements when using a smart browser like Opera which already knows how to re-flow pages?