why cant i sync pocketpcthoughts to my mobile favorites

[bigneeker]

i put pocketpcthoughts/mobile in my mobile favorites folder and i click make availble offline and when i sync my ppc it shows up on my favourite list on my ppc but when i click on it it wont work. i have ten other websites that i sync to my ppc and they all work except for pocketpcthoughts webpage.
what am i doing wrong?

thanks

[Kati Compton]

Can you elaborate on what exactly won't work?

[Kevin C. Tofel]

Rather than use Mobile Favorites, have you considered using AvantGo? I use their free service for multiple "channels" including PPCThoughts...

KCT

[Reinaldo]

Rather than use Mobile Favorites, have you considered using AvantGo? I use their free service for multiple "channels" including PPCThoughts...

KCT

Yes, however remenber to make it a custom channel. The PPC Thoughts channel is gone on Avant Go so I had to make it a custom channel.

[davidspalding]

Not all sites work. Fer instance, teh Onion A.V. Club won't work because the dipsh*t webmasters have a ROBOTS.TXT which prohibits IE from caching more than the front page. And their "back" links are all AvantGo-specific code. (Begging hte question, why don't they have a) a mobile site for live pda people, and b) a separate site for the Avantgo channel.

Some other sites have issues where a CGI form is on a cached (offline use) page. I had to do some dickering with Accuweather's mobile pages to get 3 links deep but avoiding a page with a CGI form. IE would gag when it got to that page.

If you can give a more specific error message, maybe we can determine the problem here.

Post edited by moderator 5/18/03 07:22 EDT for language.

[bigneeker]

well when i click on it in ie it wont open, some box will come up and say "unable to connect with current settings..." and its not listed in bold letters like the other websites in my favourites folder which automatically means that it did not sync correctly.
the reason i am not putting on avantgo through the customized channels is becaause i ran out of avantgo space. they only allow 2 mb and i maxed out already so theres no room for more websites. that is why i have been trying to sync with the mobile favourites but for some reason pocketpcthoughts does not work and some other websites are flaky, they work sometimes and sometimes they dont. its really annoying becasue i like to snc my favourite websites for vviewing laer. i wish the sync software was better at it.

[davidspalding]

well when i click on it in ie it wont open, some box will come up and say "unable to connect with current settings..." and its not listed in bold letters like the other websites in my favourites folder which automatically means that it did not sync correctly.

Sounds like you can't connect to the URL anyway ... and this would prevent syncing,too. Right clickthat favorite and select properties, and copy the URL ... then paste it into the address bar. See if you get the same message box.

For @(&#s and grins, try making a mobile fav and syncing somethign else that you can connect to.

[bigneeker]

the reason that message is coming up is because i am doing this when i am not connected to the intenet and my h1910 does not have wireless. ie will try to find a connection when a website was not downloaded properly and synchronized like pocketpcthoughts. the website works fine on my computer but forsome reason it wontsynchronize and dl to my mobile favourites. accuweather, pocketpcpassion,meta critic ..., these seem to dl most of the time but pocketpcthoughts never works.

[davidspalding]

I'm wondering if it's because it's a dynamic PHP site. Has anyone else been able to sync PHP-based pages for offline reading?