Thread: impserve: serving content and accessing the internet for the 1200/1150
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Old 09-02-2008, 11:25 PM   #80
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Re: link to REB1200 4.2f22 firmware upgrade. Can you post it here? Never mind, Garth has already uploaded it for download here! Talk about a class act!
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I'm using EBW1150 with version 4.2f17 (updated it last week) and cannot surf the web from ebooks.
I rechecked using privoxy and I CAN surf to google Canana News link. I don't know if there's something going on in impserve's HTML parsing process. Maybe the file gets larger? I certainly don't know.
OK, good news for REB1200 users. To be able to surf links from WITHIN a .imp ebook, upgrade your firmware to the latest (v4.2f22) at the ETI migration page here. Just download the firmware .zip and expand the file into the root of an empty CF card (just to be safe). Follow the instructions and in less than five minutes you will be up and running again. If you had already registered your unit, then your User ID will be left intact and you WILL NOT not have to re-register your unit! All your exisiting ebooks are unaffected by this upgrade!

Now, some good news for EBW1150. We've seen that firmware 4.2f17 doesn't work yet with impserve and links WITHIN a .imp ebook. However, if you launch impserve (use port 9090) and then launch privoxy (listen to port 8118, by default), then the EBW1150 does surf the links within a .imp ebook. However, you must uncheck the 'Use HTTP proxy' setting on the EBW1150 just before you call that external link. It appears that privoxy takes over for impservve now and helps facilitate the redirect better than impserve does. I checked my next.imp ebook's link to the mobileread wiki page and it worked! Now to find out why!

I think this is what Ret was referring to above! While this is a kludge it does indicate that the EBW1150 can be made to works (in a limited way) in this situation despite it's firmware version.
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