Tag : XML

django cisco phonebook

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 ...