I forgot to add that this reply length limitation only applies to Palm VII/VIIx. It does not occur with Palm V using Omnisky nor to the emulator (including Palm VII/VIIx emulator ROMs). It is definitely happening within Palm.net.
"Greg Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hopefully someone online knows the answer to this problem. > > I've read there is a radio transmitter limitation of around 8K on a Palm > VII/VIIx meaning that the power output of the transmitter falls quickly and > fails if you try to send more than around 8K at one time. I've not verified > this, but that is not my problem. > > Since yesterday I noticed that 95% of the time my Palm VII/VIIx is not able > to recieve replies to HTTP requests over 7K-8.5K. In other words, it > recieves 7K-8.5K of a long reply, but then waits and waits for the rest of > the reply. I've watched this several times in the debugger and can say for > certainty that the reply being received is exactly what it should be and the > data simply stops coming in at anywhere from 7K to 8.5K. > > One the other hand, once in a while (1 out of 40 times?) it does work with > all of the data coming in, but it takes a long time to receive the full > message which might be 12K-20K. I was certain this was not a problem before > yesterday, but since much of my work is done on the emulator and since long > replies are not frequent, this may have always been a limitation that I > missed. > > Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a "limit" because of Palm.net or the > Palm hardware on the size of the reply to an HTTP request? Again, I'm > asking about a limitation on how much data a Palm VII/VIIx can receive, not > on how much it can send. > > By the way, the reply is actually xml, not HTTP and the reply is encoded as > an xml reply -- Palm.net does leave the content alone. > > > > > -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
