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Here's the problem:

My online todo list mananger, tadalists, uses this nomenclature for addressing:

The main page is:
http://dolinar.tadalist.com/lists

The rss feed is:
http://dolinar.tadalist.com/lists.rs...c324a300181ef5

Note the .rss extension.

On my PC, http://dolinar.tadalist.com/lists drops me into the correct page, where I can add and delete items.

On the Nokia http://dolinar.tadalist.com/lists drops me into the RSS feed, where I can't do much of anything.

If I explicitly add the extension .html on the Nokia, as in http://dolinar.tadalist.com/lists.html, I'm taken to the correct opening page, not the rss feed and everything works fine, except that subsidiary pages also lack the .html exension, so those show up as rss feeds as well.

Is there a default that can be reset here, e.g. in the absence of a file extension, assume html? Or maybe some other was to deal with this?

One other thing: Where the heck is Microb? Normally I'd uninstall and reinstall just to see if it helped, but it isn't listed among applications.

Thanks in advance
 
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I don't believe that a problem on the Nokia side, but the server is presuming you are a rss reader and serving up the rss page. Have you changed your user agent sting? Have you contacted tadalists to see if this is a known issue?
 
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Last time I tried, I had the same problem with Twitter's "replies" page. (twitter.com/replies once logged in)
 
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Ta-da is free, and I'm not expecting much in the way of support, but I did write to them

I haven't changed the user agent string, at least not that I know of. After your suggestions, I did in fact dig around and find the iPhone emulation string, and tried it, since tada has just added specific support for the iphone. Works like a charm with tada, and looks gorgeous, but still has exactly the same problem: If I explicitly add the .html extension, I'm taken to the correct live page; otherwise I get an RSS feed.

Anyone know of a user agent string that will force microb to read no extension as .html?

Meanwhile, I'm gonna load the Firefox on the pc and see what it does.

BTW, if you haven't tried the iPhone string, it's pretty cool. Google mail becomes much more useable.
 
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Scratch that idea. Mozilla Firefox handles tada just fine on the PC.
 
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I signed up for an account. On the NIT I am seeing what I expected to see, tadalists is deciding that the browser it's what it expects and is not stylizing the page the way you expect. It is not sending down a rss feed in it's place.

Rather than do a test for functionality, they are using agent sniffing to change the style and features of the html page. This is considered bad form by some and can only be truly fixed on their end. You can try setting the useragent on the NIT to a something more like FF3 to see if it "just works".
 

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And for reference...

lists and lists.html send down 100% the same html. It's probably broken javascript on their end that is getting confused.
 
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argh. lists and lists.html produce totally different content and underlying html on my tablet browser.

The problematic line in the lists.html file seems to be this one:

<link href="http://dolinar.tadalist.com/lists.rss?token=3f8173e64eb522ae41c324a300181ef5" rel="alternate" title="RSS" type="application/rss+xml" />

which is located near the top of the file. That sends it scooting off to the RSS feed, (it is the rss feed, the content and appearance are identical) which is what shows up on the tablet.

I also get a prompt that says "viewing feed" when it loads the rss feed.

Can't help but think there some kind of configuration change I can make in microb, since everything works fine in IE and Firefox on the PC. Is there any generic useragent that would work?
 
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I do not get that same behavior on my tablet. Do you have conola extra stuff installed that add feed handling? Do you have flash or other plugins enabled?
 
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