Re: SUN Internal Remote Access via Pilot

[Kevin Osborn - JavaSoft <osborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Handstamp (another email client) has it's own stack, though I don't know 
what it's scripting capabilities are. They may be more amenable to 
changes though...

	You have hit at the crux of the issue.. the Enigma challenge system we 
use
	for dialin access to SWAN.  Palm, in their infinite wisdom (not!), 
doesn't seem
	to have put anything in their PPP connection script language to wait for
	a string containing wildcard characters, or anything to display a string 
that
	it receives from the remote end.  Obviously, this makes displaying your
	random challenge code very difficult.  (If somebody has found a way 
around this,
	*please* pipe up).
	
	I've been working this issue in my free time (not very much) through my
	manager, whose sister happens to be a product manager for the Pilot at 
3Com.  
	They seemed to be interested at first in possibly giving us a patched 
version 
	(apparently we are not the only company asking for this) of the network 
	libraries that would support this, but have cooled considerably on the 
idea 
	because "we need to show a business case" (my manager's quote).  One 
approach I 
	could try would be to have all of you at Sun on this list that would 
like this
	feature email me, and I could forward these on to my manager's sister at 
3Com.  
	That may help, but I'm not sure it will turn the tide....
	
	The other option would be to write a HackMaster extension that traps for 
the 
	event generated during PPP connection negotiation, and then provides the 
	functionality we need.  I believe I saw the event or events that do this 
in my 
	last perusal through the Palm header files, but it would require a fair 
amount 
	of research, plus development time that I don't have personally right 
now.  
	Maybe someone with more time would like to pick this up? 
	
		-Guy Martin
		-SMCC IR
	
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Kevin Osborn         Tel. (508) 442-0751
JavaSoft East
Sun Microsystems     Email:kevin.osborn@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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