ScoutPal Bookmarking Tips
(or How To Add ScoutPal to your Phone's "favorites")
ScoutPalSE
(scanner phone) users:
Please refer to this page:
http://www.scoutpal.com/sp/logintips-se.htm
ScoutPalDB
(Pocket PC database) users:
ScoutPalDB Setup Instructions:
Don't know the first thing about operating your phone's web
browser?
Read this "Go to URL" info page first.
Summary:
- Servers -- scoutpal.com and metapal.com
- To bookmark the Primary server, use "scoutpal.com" in the URL.
(URL = website address)
- To bookmark the Backup server, use "metapal.com" in the URL.
- ScoutPal maintains two separate and geographically isolated servers in
order to provide 24x7 redundancy. Each server is completely
independent, including search history and formats.
- For history/formats on the Primary server, use your desktop computer
to login at http://www.scoutpal.com
(the login is on the right side of the page.)
- For history/formats on the Backup server, use your desktop computer
to login at http://www.metapal.com
- The Primary server has high capacity and bandwidth, and should be your
first choice when using ScoutPal.
- Auto Login
You can create a bookmark to ScoutPal that will automatically log you
in, so you don't have to reenter your ScoutPal ID and password each time you
start to use ScoutPal.
- Using the phone browser's "go to" function (it may be labeled "goto",
"goto url", or "enter site"), browse to one of the URL's listed here, then
bookmark the page that comes up.
- In all of the URL's given below, "myID" and "myPW" stand for
your ScoutPal ID and password. Replace them with your ScoutPal ID
and password when you type the URL into the phone.
- There are a multiple ways to accomplish an auto login, depending on how your
phone and cellular carrier processes URL (website address) requests.
- You may have to try more than one of these methods in order to find one that
will work consistently with your particular model of cell phone.
- If you subsequently change your ScoutPal ID and/or password, you will
need to edit or recreate the Auto Login bookmark to use the new ID/password.
- Scroll down to review the various ScoutPal bookmarking options. You can usually leave off the "http://" part when typing in a URL. Always use all lowercase letters when entering these URLs.
- [Login URL for Pocket PC, iPhone, and many other PDA
phones.]
- If you have a Sanyo or Samsung phone on Sprint, you may need to use the "wapg"
service site.
ScoutPal Bookmark URL options:
http://wap.scoutpal.com/index.cgi?myID-myPW
-- or --
http://wap.scoutpal.com/?myID-myPW
(Note the "wap" part instead of the usual "www") If you then bookmark this page the login will be set. The next time you are
ready to use ScoutPal on your phone, use the phone go-to-bookmark function to
go directly to the page, press or select the LOGIN link, and begin entering your
first ISBN.
Some phone browsers will not allow you to directly bookmark a URL containing
"?" or other such symbols. In that case, bookmark wap.scoutpal.com, then use the
phone's "edit bookmark" function to change the URL to contain the full login sequence.
http://wml.scoutpal.com/index.cgi?myID-myPW
(Note the "wml" part instead of the usual "www") The wml service site provides for on-screen multi-ISBN entry when you
have specified 2 or more ISBN entry fields in your ScoutPal format.
The wml site is not compatible with all cell phones.
http://wapg.scoutpal.com/index.cgi?myID-myPW
-- or --
http://wapg.scoutpal.com?myID-myPW
-- or --
http://www.scoutpal.com/wapg/index.cgi?myID-myPW
-- or --
http://www.scoutpal.com/wapg/?myID-myPW
(Note the "wapg" part instead of "wap") With many phones, you can then bookmark the first ISBN entry screen that comes
up after LOGIN, which will allow you to skip the LOGIN step completely.
http://ie.scoutpal.com/?myID-myPW
(Note the "ie" part instead of the usual "www")
-- or --
http://www.scoutpal.com/ie?myID-myPW
-- or --
http://www.scoutpal.com/ie/index.cgi?myID-myPW
If your browser does not support JavaScript, use:
http://www.scoutpal.com/pda/index.cgi?myID-myPW
-- or --
http://www.scoutpal.com/pda/?myID-myPW
Some browsers will need to use a slightly different sequence: Begin the
login from http://www.scoutpal.com/pdag, then bookmark the next
page.
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