Rajah,
This appears to be an issue with the way those two voice
browsers are handling the URL's. It's possible to rearrange things such
that the ; and = are no longer in the URL, but this begs the question: what
else are those platforms going to get wrong? I'd let the respective
vendors know what your problems are, as it's really their responsibility to get
their code functioning properly, and in the meantime try a different
platform. I use Voxeo's
Prophecy quite a bit, and have found only minor incompatibilities with it
(nothing on the level of what you're dealing with). It's free for 2-ports
and an easy install.
Sincerely,
Randy Childers
OpenMethods
I've
created an ivr web app using OpenVXML studio. The process is smooth. I
exported it as a webapp and deployed with Tomcat.
I'm using vxml browsers VoiceGlue (open source) and VXI* VoiceXML demo versions
to prototype and evaluate the solution for our application.
The problem we are facint is observed with both the browsers.
This is the problem.
1. When the call started the initial/root vxml is downloaded and parsed fine.
2. The next URL sent to Tomcat
3. Tomcat sends 404/402.
4. Call drops.
Observations:
1. Actual URL - http://localhost:9090/mediaivrapp/-/next;jsessionid=B75CD6DCECB6A1202F1D29155C23B5F7?cbb0fc79382a4f039e6f8eb5fef8b1cd=success.filled&ANI=781871222&DNIS=617428444
2. URL logged at Tomcat
/mediaivrapp/-/next%3Bjsessionid%3DB75CD6DCECB6A1202F1D29155C23B5F7?cbb0fc79382a4f039e6f8eb5fef8b1cd=success.filled&ANI=781871222&DNIS=617428444
The problem seems to be due to the fact that Tomcat does not support UTF-8 by
default. For example VoiceGlue and i6.net voicexml browsers both sending the URL in the form
shown in 2.
As you see the ";' and "=" characters are converted to UTF-8
Ascii codes by the voice xml browser and this seems to be causing the Tomcat
not to map it to the right resource and return 404.
Where as if I manually treverse through the VXML using IE it works fine and IE
sends the URL in ISO-8859-1 format and does not convert them to UTF-8.
This is the peice of information, I found.
"ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. ISO-8859-1 is the default character encoding for
servers and browsers according to the HTTP specification section 3.4.1."
And it seems Tomcat is also by default using ISO-8859-1.
I've modified Tomcat server.xml to add UTF-8 encoing in the Connector. But
still it didn't work.
This is blocking our validation of OPenVXML and VoiceGlue. I appreciate
and help.
Thanks in Advance,
Rajah
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