Yesterday I was fooling around with python and trying to serve
some XML to a Cisco 7960 I have. I spent a lot of time getting
my web server set up to serve a dynamic XML page which I could pop
my phone book information into and when I finally got it done it
wouldn't work. Searching online I found out that the latest
firmwares from Cisco, 9.*, has a couple of bugs in it dealing with
XML. Unfortunately I don't remember where I found this information
but I can give out the sparks notes on what I saw.
When I was served the page from a web server, if it responded
HTTP/1.0 OK, no good, the phone would only accept if it was
HTTP/1.1 . I was getting some cryptic 404/BTXML errors but I could see
that the files were fine by loading it on to the production
server as a static file. Sure enough the phone was able to parse
it, so I actually moved the dynamic parts to the production
server to see if it would work as well.
After moving it, the phone can read it fine but I am getting some
errors that look like encoding problems. I am going to have to
look into this some more later, but here is what I have tried so
far as well as some notes about my setup which I will release
after I get all the problems worked out.
Set the encoding in the \<xml ...\> tag that prefixes the generated
XML for the phone book.
I am using minidom.Document from python to write the XML files
and I have noticed that the ends of the strings are mac like, but
I don't think this is a problem since apache served the downloaded
file to the phone just fine.
This has potential to be very cool, but until it gets worked out,
its useless.
Posted on Jan. 12, 2010 by
pauls
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