Please help me test the new survey code.

[Michael]

Hi guys. Please take some time to test out the survey code I wrote over the past week.

If it proves to work well enough, it will be used for our first sweepstakes. Motorola has donated a RAZR V3, and LetsTalk.com is donating some accessories.

The test survey is here:

http://www.mobileburn.com/survey.html

So please fill it out, but make sure you use a valid email address. Once you submit the form, the system will send you an activation email. Look for that email and click on the link it sends to you.

If you have multiple email addresses, please sign up with each so that we can give this thing a good testing.

If you resubmit or refill the form again with the same email address, it will save over the old entry and send the email out again. You can use this if you think the email got caught by spam filters.

Tell your system to allow mail from noreply@mobileburn.com - that is the address used by the activation email.

Please post your results here in this thread, especially if you have problems.

Thanks much.

[tedwardo]

why does it say rank?

[reikimaster]

Hi Michael
This is what happens when i try to submit the form...

HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.servic e(JspServletWrapper.java:373)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFil e(JspServlet.java:295)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspSe rvlet.java:245)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)


root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException
com.burn.mobile.SurveyBean.saveResponse(SurveyBean .java:100)
org.apache.jsp.responsesave_jsp._jspService(org.ap ache.jsp.responsesave_jsp:76)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(Http JspBase.java:99)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.servic e(JspServletWrapper.java:325)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFil e(JspServlet.java:295)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspSe rvlet.java:245)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:802)


note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.4 logs.


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Apache Tomcat/5.5.4

[Jacob_Stevenson]

Congratulations! Your sweepstakes entry has been activated. Your all set.

We'll be in touch via email if you are one of our winners.


:D :D

[Michael]

Thanks very much for this. If you would be so nice to try again, I'd appreciate it. This error message showed me exactly what the problem was, and I believe it to be fixed now.

Turns out to be a relatively uncommon thing, since your proxy server/firewall/whatever seems to be blocking cookies.

Thanks again.

Hi Michael
This is what happens when i try to submit the form...

root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException
com.burn.mobile.SurveyBean.saveResponse(SurveyBean .java:100)
org.apache.jsp.responsesave_jsp._jspService(org.ap ache.jsp.responsesave_jsp:76)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(Http JspBase.java:99)

[Michael]

why does it say rank?It had to say something. Originally I had the form doing a name, rank, serial number thing.

But when I made the test public, I decided to make it something more normal.

I just couldn't come up with anything else that would test a drop-down select box, so I just left it as rank.

[BigBadBoss]

Congratulations! Your sweepstakes entry has been activated. Your all set.

We'll be in touch via email if you are one of our winners.

Relax buddy it WORKS!!!

By the way... is there any particular reason u have gone for the "rank" thing?? or is just like "Mr", etc? just a cool way to address someone u thot of?

[BigBadBoss]

I just couldn't come up with anything else that would test a drop-down select box, so I just left it as rank.

:o Ooops Sorry, didnt read it d first time, so asked u bout it!!!

anyways, i will test d code again with a couple of more email addresses and let u know bout it :cool:

[yaris1001]

Mine went through with no problems.

[dudeshag]

Worked fine for me in my Gmail, also fine in one that was redirected to Hotmail through my domain name, and fine for another Hotmail account but my one sent a hotmail account gave me:
"Mismatched Key, Please check that you copied and pasted the entire Activation URL from the email message."

I checked using IE & AOL broweser and they worked fine in both apart from the one Mismatched Key.

[Michael]

It seems that most entries have been activated so far. A good sign. But there are still plenty that have not. 42 of 60 have been activated, 18 have not.

The question is, of the 18 that have not, how many are because the email never got past the ISP's spam filters, and how many didn't get past the user's personal spam filters?

I see it all the time with the forums, some people just never get their login activation email no matter how many times it is sent.

[Alexandr3]

everything's ok here! ;)

[dudeshag]

It seems that most entries have been activated so far. A good sign. But there are still plenty that have not. 42 of 60 have been activated, 18 have not.

The question is, of the 18 that have not, how many are because the email never got past the ISP's spam filters, and how many didn't get past the user's personal spam filters?

I see it all the time with the forums, some people just never get their login activation email no matter how many times it is sent.

It made it past the Hotmail ones fine which are rather good at stopping Spam and wasn't spam at Gmail. The only problem could be user defined Spam Filters but if they're smart enough to set them up they should be smart enough to know to check if their activation email went there.

[Michael]

It made it past the Hotmail ones fine which are rather good at stopping Spam and wasn't spam at Gmail. The only problem could be user defined Spam Filters but if they're smart enough to set them up they should be smart enough to know to check if their activation email went there.Yeah, I am going to put a note in the process telling people to be sure to 'whitelist' the address used by the survey. That should help it get past a few more.

Will never get to everybody, but the higher the percentage the better.

[tedwardo]

It had to say something. Originally I had the form doing a name, rank, serial number thing.

But when I made the test public, I decided to make it something more normal.

I just couldn't come up with anything else that would test a drop-down select box, so I just left it as rank.
okk so it dont rili have any significance

[tedwardo]

can i try it twice? n th activation email gets there instantly... gd work!

[justop26]

It totally worked for me. I'll try it on other e-mail accounts I've got. Can I suggest something Michael? Please don't make it just for "over 18" people. I sure want to participate in the real thing!

[Michael]

It totally worked for me. I'll try it on other e-mail accounts I've got. Can I suggest something Michael? Please don't make it just for "over 18" people. I sure want to participate in the real thing!My plan is to make it open to everybody, but I do have to check into some legal issues.

can i try it twice? n th activation email gets there instantly... gd work!Yes, you can test it more than once - but you need a different email address each time. If you use the same address, it just overwrites the old entry.

[commedecargons]

Fine here with walla mail..

[SNES350]

Worked fine for me.

*first post at MobileBurn*

[Jalal]

I signed in with multiple e-mails.

First Hotmail account gave me this message:

Mismatched Key, Please check that you copied and pasted the entire Activation URL from the email message.

The second Hotmail went through fine.

Gmail went through fine as well.

[dahruj]

I worked perfectly...

[dahruj]

I mean it worked perfectly. Sorry...

[Michael]

Excellent, thanks much for testing it, guys.

[TimmyT]

"We're sorry, you're too late. This survey/sweepstakes is now closed."

Didn't get any email.

[Michael]

"We're sorry, you're too late. This survey/sweepstakes is now closed."

Didn't get any email.Yeah, I wanted to test that, too. I had an end date on it.

The system passed the test. We're moving forward with the contest.

[dudeshag]

I got 2 activation emails through today which were both the same and the link took me to

"Mismatched Key, Please check that you copied and pasted the entire Activation URL from the email message."

[TheZodiac]

Guess I missed this thread. Said NO longer active or something :( Oh well :-P

[Michael]

I got 2 activation emails through today which were both the same and the link took me to

"Mismatched Key, Please check that you copied and pasted the entire Activation URL from the email message."Can you PM that email to me so I can compare with what the database shows?

[justop26]

My plan is to make it open to everybody, but I do have to check into some legal issues.



Yay! :D I hope that all that legal stuff works out fine...

[Michael]

Motorola is hemming and hawing about it being open to international people. We'll see what happens.