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We've used a scheduled script to generate a "Browser-Message" to push an HTML table of data to a group of BlackBerries via an MDS server. The HTML is dynamically generated; it doesn't exist at any URL and so we pass a "Content-Location" header that points to the root of our intranet because not passing one resulted in the "Browser-Message" not being sent and yet passing our intranet home URL seems to work fine.

The “Browser-Message” API documentation suggests that the content of the POST message will appear in the Inbox on a BlackBerry device and be displayed verbatim when clicked. If the user subsequently chooses the “Refresh” menu option, the BlackBerry device will visit the URL passed in the “Content-Location”, download fresh content and display it.

Seemingly in OS5 this was how it worked for us. As I understand it, the Browser–Message needn’t be html, it may just be a short text note so whether it’s rendered by the MDS Browser or BlackBerry Browser shouldn’t make a great deal of difference for simple content.

However, OS6 seems to ignore the POSTed content and downloads the content directly from the URL passed in the “Content-Location” HTTP header. Whilst this might be OK if the Browser-Message content exists at that URL, if it’s dynamically generated on–the–fly it may be necessary to pass an alternate URL in the “Content-Location” HTTP header but certainly isn’t what the BlackBerry device should be displaying first of all. It should display the content of the POSTed message.

I have attached the test vbs script which works fine for OS5 but not on OS6.

I have contacted RIM and opened a case and after much back and forth they have decided it was not a problem but a developer issue and we then had to log a case with the RIM developers which then incurs a fee.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.