HowTo – Setting Up Your Site To Allow Downloads To Your PCS Vision Phone

Filed under: Web Design
A friend of mine had a Samsung phone that he wanted to use to grab content from his website. The setup is pretty easy with only a couple edits of your .htaccess file to include mimetypes once done you setup your phone to access a directory on your server set aside for the content you want to download like images or midi files. First make a directory on your website named phone or something else creative. Open a text editor and make a .htaccess file for uploading to that directory. You may need to name it htaccess.txt and rename it once it is uploaded. in this file place AddType text/x-pcs-gcd gcd Since the phone can not directly access files you will need to make a .gcd file for each item in the directory that you want to access and place themĀ  in the /phone/ directory. a .gcd file has a format like this Content-Type: image/jpeg Content-Name: flower Content-Version: 1.0 Content-Vendor: ARB Content-URL: http://yourWebSite/phone/flower.jpg Content-Size: 12000 Name the file flower.gcd Do the same for each file you want access to but change the Content-Type and other information to match the file you want to download. Available types include MID: audio/midi JPG: image/jpeg TXT: text/plain QCP: audio/vnd.qcelp JAD: text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor JAR: application/java-archive PNG: image/png PMD: application/x-pmd WBMP: image/vnd.wap.wbmp Note do not use underscores _ in your file names or you will endup with errors. Now you need to set your phone up to access the directory on your server.