Environment:
The general idea is a very simple cross-platform mobile application, interacting with data synchronised periodically with the server using Mobilink. To get round all the cross-platform issues, we want a have web application, and hope to use the SQLAnywhere web server to deliver it. This would give us an easily deployable application and data synchronisation solution in one go - everything would be in the database. The mobile devices will be being used in situations where there is usually / often no wireless (or wired) connectivity (if it was always available we wouldn't need data synchronisation of course!). SQLA installs fine, database starts fine. A trivial prototype application works fine when the mobile device has a WiFi connection, Internet Explorer opening the webservice "page" at 127.0.0.1. However when there is no WiFi connection, IE reports "Action cancelled. IE cannot link to the page requested...." A dialogue box also comes up saying "cannot connect with current connection settings" My question is: why cannot the local SQLAnywhere webservice be seen, just because there is no Wifi connection, and is there a way around this? |