Getting around webclient's browser check (5.1)

Classic Servoy
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Hello,

I have some older Windows CE based PDT’s that we use in our warehousing environment. The PDT’s are very expensive, ruggedized units and really work incredibly well, but were EOL’d some time ago. At the time they were EOL’d, they supported Windows CE .NET 4.2.

Windows CE .NET 4.2 shipped with a version of IE 6 (see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms901942.aspx) however that version does not pass the browser check.

Our Servoy 5.1 webclient solution that we designed to be run on PDT’s (uber simple form w/ two fields and a button) won’t load due to the browser requirement not being met. I completely understand that something as sophisticated as webclient couldn’t possible perform well on a trimmed down, mobile version of CE’s IE 6, but if I can’t get the solution loading that means I have to either upgrade to new PDT’s,or create a web application using other technologies and tie those into our servoy soltion w/ webservices etc.

Other than my trivial Servoy 5.1 webclient app I have no other reason to upgrade them, so if there is a way around this browser check I would sure like to at least try running my application on Windows CE 4.2/IE 6 mobile.

Any chance at all for this?

thanks in advance

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Have you considered using headlessclient? If it’s two fields and a button that should be less than 30 minutes to implement.

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turn of anchoring in the admin pages… Then we still find 6.0 ok.

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Thanks for the reply. I need anchoring for other solutions. It’s a global setting as I recall?

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no you can set this PER solution in the servoy-admin page

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Harjo:
no you can set this PER solution in the servoy-admin page

does harjo have Servoy 6.0 already? There we have the option to do it per solution, dont think that is in 5.2

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yeah, ofcourse! ;-)

No I was confusing with the ajax option…

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Thanks for the replies

Seeing as I can’t turn off anchoring just for the one solution (and there apparently is no other way to support IE 6), it looks like I’m out of luck w/ webclient for the web app running on my PDT’s.

Too bad.

Thanks

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you can always run it on a different port (so 2 instances of servoy)
also you can make a feature request to see if we can backport that per solution anchor support to 5.2.x, dont know how big that change was.