WTV ARCHIVES: LOGIN SETUP
Updated: 10-4-99
This page, and the uninformed speculations contained within, © 1999 ulTRAX@webtv.net

Group: alt.discuss.webtv.technical 
Date: Sun, Sep 12, 1999, 10:45am  
From: ulTRAX@webtv.net 
wtv-setup:/get-from-server & ClientArg   

These codes may hold a key to many WTV functions which may exist but we have no control over. For those of ou who have not seen this string here it is  

wtv-setup:/get-from-server=1&setup-advanced-option=1&setup-play-bgm=0&setup-bgm-tempo=&setup-bgm-volume=100&setup-background-color=c6c6c6&setup-font-size=medium&setup-in-stereo=1&setup-keyboard=alphabetical&setup-link-color=2222bb&setup-play-songs=1&setup-play-sounds=1&setup-text-color=0&setup-visited-color=8822bb&setup-japan-keyboard=roman&setup-japan-softkeyboard=norm&setup-chat-access-level=0&setup-chat-on-nontrusted-pages=1&setup-tv-chat-level=0  

At times I have been able to directly access it at wtv-setup:/get-from-server but initially the code was found in cache... in bits and pieces.  I'm assuming that this string represents our browser preferences, which are stored on the server, being downloaded back into the box during login. But who knows... Maybe it's just the box letting the server know what current preferrences are.  It seems the elements in this string are very much related to 

FILE://ROM/DATA/CLIENTARG.TXT. Here is a comparison. a YES after each element mans it also appears in ClientArg. If we have control over the setting I added CONT/NO or "?" if I'm unsure  

setup-advanced-option=1 YES/(?)  
setup-play-bgm=0   YES/CONT  
setup-bgm-tempo=   YES/NO  
setup-bgm-volume=100 YES /NO  
setup-background-color=c6c6c6   YES/(?)  
setup-font-size=medium (font sizes)   YES/CONT  setup-in-stereo=1   YES/NO 
setup-keyboard=alphabetical   YES/CONT 
setup-link-color=2222bb   YES/NO 
setup-play-songs=1   YES/NO (I'm assuming this is NOT the same as bg music)  
setup-play-sounds=1   YES/NO  
setup-text-color=0   YES/NO  
setup-visited-color=8822bb   YES/NO  
setup-japan-keyboard=roman   NO/NO  setup-japan-softkeyboard=norm   NO/NO  setup-chat-access-level=0   YES/CONT  setup-chat-on-nontrusted-pages=1 YES/CONT 
setup-tv-chat-level=0 (access-level) YES/CONT 

There obviously are some elements on Get-From-Sever which are not on ClientArg.  But there are also some ClientArg elements which do not show up on Get-From-Server, notably 

setup-tv-log-disabled
setup-chat-nick-attr-enabled
setup-play-message-sound 

What the first one does is pretty clear... 
The point of this exercise is to determine whether those elements we do NOT have control over CAN be controled. Granted it may make no difference whether we can change the background music's tempo... except that it's not something WNI wanted to give us control over.... like the TV LOGs.  I think the way to proceed is deduce codes we don't know from thoe we do. We need to get the actions from all the pages which offer us control over these Get-From-Server/ClientArg elements and see how they work. In the case of the keyboard setup the codes are  

client:SetSetup?Setup-Keyboard=standard  client:SetSetup?Setup-Keyboard=alphabetical  

But ClientArg may offer a clue: wtv-setup:/set  Wouldn't it be ironic if ClientArg turned out to be as easy to ready as the HD directories? LOL  None the less one can easily imagine the tv-log-disable code tacked on to the END of this long code. 

wtv-setup:/get-from-server=1&setup-advanced-option=1&setup-play-bgm=0&setup-bgm-tempo=&setup-bgm-volume=100&setup-background-color=c6c6c6&setup-font-size=medium&setup-in-stereo=1&setup-keyboard=alphabetical&setup-link-color=2222bb&setup-play-songs=1&setup-play-sounds=1&setup-text-color=0&setup-visited-color=8822bb&setup-japan-keyboard=roman&setup-japan-softkeyboard=norm&setup-chat-access-level=0&setup-chat-on-nontrusted-pages=1&setup-tv-chat-level=0&setup-tv-logs-disabled=1


Group: alt.discuss.webtv.technical 
Date: Sun, Sep 12, 1999
From: ulTRAX@webtv.net 
Re: ClientArg Elements

CLIENTARG TEXT: from Plus 2.2 file://rom/data/clientarg.txt 
delete 
resume 
enable 
clear 
volume 
tempo 
maxplaytime 
loadplaylist 
operation 
showcurrentmessage 
showlast 
message 
chatinput 
target 
channel 
reset 
usepulsedialling 
audibledialing 
dialoutsideline 
changedcity 
waitfordialtone 
call-waiting-mode 
disable-call-waiting 
dial-speed 
dialoutsideprefix 
call-waiting-threshold 
callwaitingprefix 
accessnumber 
connect 
autosubmit 
brokenpbx 
longdistanceprefix 
tollfreeaccessnumber 
allow-reconnect 
topic 
private 
adjustsensitivity 
pitch 
password 
disable 
title 
thumbnailurl 
filter 
zoommode 
editmessage 
address 
value 
setup-background-color 
setup-text-color 
setup-link-color 
setup-visited-color 
setup-keyboard 
setup-play-bgm 
setup-bgm-tempo 
setup-bgm-volume 
setup-font-sizes 
setup-play-songs 
setup-play-sounds 
setup-play-message-sound 
setup-in-stereo 
setup-advanced-options 
setup-chat-access-level 
from-server 
backgroundcolor 
textcolor 
linkcolor 
visitedcolor 
alphabetical 
buttonlabel1 
buttonlabel2 
buttonaction1 
buttonaction2 
backaction 
noback 
image 
sound 
action 
showpage 
animation 
submitname 
submitvalue 
enabled 
backwards 
bottom 
medium 
light 
shade 
address_off 
address_on 
fontsize 
print_scrn 
wtv-mail:/addressbookfavorite-url 
favorite-title 
favorite-thumbnail-type 
image/wtv-bitmap 
file://rom/Animations/favorite.ani 
wtv-favorite:/add 
text/url 
file://rom/Images/all.gif 
file://rom/Animation/mail.ani 
file://rom/Images/Mail.gif 
wtv-mail:sendmail 
message_body 
message_to 
message_url 
message_title 
message_subject 
wtv-setup:/set 
backspace 
sendoff 
byoispselected 
byoispprovidename 
byoisploginname 
byoisppassword 
byoispaccesnumber 
key 
explain 
byoispaccessnumber2 
setup-chat-on-nontrusted-pages 
print_set 
RecentSpotURL 
setup-tv-log-disabled-mask 
videoad 
setup-chat-nick-attr-enabled 


Group: alt.discuss.webtv.technical 
Date: Sun, Sep 12, 1999
From: ulTRAX@webtv.net
Re: updating wtv-setup:/get 2   

If you access wtv-setup:/get note your text size. If you change it, it will be reflected immediately in Get.... once you RELOAD the page... not just revisit it in cache.  

In fact this may be the simplist way to tell whether we have managed to make any other changes to the Get list.... such as disabling the TV Logs. Trying to create them just to see if they show up would be innefficient lol.


Group: alt.discuss.webtv.technical 
Date: Mon, Sep 13, 1999
From: ulTRAX@webtv.net
Re: GET elements: access and codes   

These elements appear in WTV-SETUP:/GET. Some similar ones also appear in ClientArg. If we are to gain control over the ones we do not have control over we will need to inventory which we have, study existing codes, and predict new codes.  In this inventory are the codes plus:  

1: whether they also appear in ClientArg 
2: Whether we have user official control, have gained it by predicting a  code, and 
3: What that code is.  

NOTE: apparently it may be possible to enter values which are invalid  but show up anyway. THis might explain why some code changes have no apparent effect... 

setup-advanced-option=1
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue 
not sure what this is. Phone setup? if so then the change may ot take place until next log on.  

setup-play-bgm=0   YES/official/setsetupvalue  setup-bgm-tempo=  

YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue
no apparent effect on bg music 

setup-bgm-volume=100
YES /unofficial/setsetupvalue
does reduce bg music volume 

setup-background-color=c6c6c6  
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue
affects bg color on pages like GET 

setup-font-size=medium (font sizes)   YES/official/setsetupvalue  

setup-in-stereo=1  
YES/unofficial/?
no apparent effect 

setup-keyboard=alphabetical   YES/official/setsetup  

setup-link-color=2222bb   YES/unofficial/setseupvalue  

setup-play-songs=1  
YES/?/?
This is not the same as bg music 

setup-play-sounds=1  (browser sound FX) YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue  

setup-text-color=0   YES/?/?  

setup-visited-color=8822bb  
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue
no apparent effect 

setup-japan-keyboard=roman  
NO/?/? 

setup-japan-softkeyboard=norm  
NO/?/? 

setup-chat-access-level=0  
YES/official/? 

setup-chat-on-nontrusted-pages=1 
YES/official/? 

setup-tv-chat-level=0 (what is this?) 
YES/?/? 

setup-tv-log-disabled
NO/?/? 

setup-chat-nick-attr-enabled
NO/?/? 

setup-play-message-sound
NO/?/?


Group: alt.discuss.webtv.technical 
Date: Tue, Sep 14, 1999
From: ulTRAX@webtv.net
Re: GET elements: access [update]   

These elements below appear in WTV-SETUP:/GET. Some similar ones also appear in ClientArg.  Some of these elements we can control through the official options WNI provides. Yet others, some which seem like they pose to threat to WNI, they refuse to give us control.. like midi volume. If we are to gain control over these elements we will need to inventory what we have, study existing codes, and predict new codes.  In this inventory are the codes plus:  

1: whether they also appear in ClientArg 
2: Whether we have user official control, have gained it by predicting a  code, and 
3: What that code is.  

NOTE: apparently it may be possible to enter values which are invalid  but show up anyway. THis might explain why some code changes have no apparent effect... 

setup-advanced-option=1
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue 
not sure what this is. Phone setup? if so then the change may ot take place until next log on.  

setup-play-bgm=0   YES/official/setsetupvalue this controls whether we hear bg music we select. 
setup-bgm-tempo=  
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue
no apparent effect on bg music 

setup-bgm-volume=100
YES /unofficial/setsetupvalue
does reduce bg music volume 

setup-background-color=c6c6c6  
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue 
affects default bg color on pages like GET 

setup-font-size=medium (font sizes)   YES/official/setsetupvalue  

setup-in-stereo=1  
YES/unofficial/?
no apparent effect 

setup-keyboard=alphabetical   YES/official/setsetup  

setup-link-color=2222bb   
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue maybe only works on pages as a default.  

setup-play-songs=1   YES/unofficial/setsetup  this turns off the splash songs during login 

setup-play-sounds=1   YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue shuts off all browser sound effects  

setup-text-color=0  
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue
works on pages with default text color 

setup-visited-color=8822bb  
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue 
no apparent effect on WTV pages but there is on my HP.  

setup-japan-keyboard=roman   
NO/?/?  

setup-japan-softkeyboard=norm  
NO/?/? 

setup-chat-access-level=0   
YES/official/wtv-setup:/validate.... see separate post  

setup-chat-on-nontrusted-pages=1 
YES/official/? not sure what is is. it does NOT seem to be a setting like for "public rooms only" 
setup-tv-chat-level=0 (what is this?) 
YES/?/? 

setup-tv-log-disabled
NO/?/? 

setup-chat-nick-attr-enabled
NO/?/? 

setup-play-message-sound
NO/?/?


Group: alt.discuss.webtv.technical 
Date: Wed, Sep 15, 1999  
From: ulTRAX@webtv.net
Re: ClientArg&Logs   

Actually Bone conned his wife into typing out ClientArg. I just spellchecked it off my printout.  But what may be more weird than pages that one can't C&P... are pages that you can, but some of what the C&P is grabbing text which can't be seen. It's like doing a FIND search for a word and only seeing the first letter highlighted... but when you get the C&P results, you find all the hidden text.


Group: alt.discuss.webtv.technical 
Date: Thu, Sep 16, 1999
From: ulTRAX@webtv.net
Re: wtv-setup:/get & ClientArg #3   

I've been all over the board exploring these new areas and I need to start tying the posts together. Eventually this will be merged with the TV LOG deletion posts.  

These GET and CLIENTARG codes may hold the key to many WTV functions which may exist, but we have no control over. For those of you who have not seen this GET string here it is (just rememer that this is my setup code. Yours may have different values). You can access your code at WTV-SETUP:/GET but originally we were getting this code from cache.  

wtv-setup:/get-from-server=1&setup-advanced-option=1&setup-play-bgm=0&setup-bgm-tempo=&setup-bgm-volume=100&setup-background-color=c6c6c6&setup-font-size=medium&setup-in-stereo=1&setup-keyboard=alphabetical&setup-link-color=2222bb&setup-play-songs=1&setup-play-sounds=1&setup-text-color=0&setup-visited-color=8822bb&setup-japan-keyboard=roman&setup-japan-softkeyboard=norm&setup-chat-access-level=0&setup-chat-on-nontrusted-pages=1&setup-tv-chat-level=0  This string represents our browser preferences, which seem to be stored on the server, being downloaded back into the box during login. 

For example, I have the "songs" shut off.... and during login.... the Splash theme shut's off midway through. I'm assuming that's when this GET code is downloaded. How the box communicates these preferences to the server will be covered later.  It seems the elements in this string are very much related to FILE://ROM/DATA/CLIENTARG.TXT. 

Some of these GET elements we can control through the official options WNI provides. Yet others, some which hardly seem like they pose to threat to WNI, they refuse to give us control... like midi volume.  GET/CLIENTARG INVENTORY 

If we are to gain control over these elements we will need to inventory what we have, study existing codes, and predict new codes.  In this inventory are the codes plus: 
1: whether they also appear in ClientArg
2: Whether we have user official control, have gained it by predicting a  code, and 
3: What that code is. NOTE: apparently it may be possible to enter values which are invalid but show up anyway. This might explain why some code changes have no apparent effect. Most codes work off two client commands. Here are two examples: 

client:SetSetup?Setup-Keyboard=standard client:SetSetupValue?setup-play-bgm=0 

A third command is from the Main User's account section> 

setup-advanced-option=1
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue 
not sure what this is. it does NOT seem to be the advanced phone set up.  

setup-play-bgm=0   
YES/official/setsetupvalue this controls whether we hear bg music we select.  

setup-bgm-tempo=  
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue
no apparent effect on bg music 

setup-bgm-volume=100
YES /unofficial/setsetupvalue
does reduce bg music volume 

setup-background-color=c6c6c6  
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue 
affects default bg color on pages like GET 

setup-font-size=medium (font sizes)    
YES/official/setsetupvalue (small.medium, large) 

setup-in-stereo=1  
YES/unofficial/?
no apparent effect 

setup-keyboard=alphabetical   YES/official/setsetup  

setup-link-color=2222bb   YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue maybe only works on pages as a default.  

setup-play-songs=1  
YES/unofficial/setsetup 
this turns off the splash songs during login 

setup-play-sounds=1   YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue shuts off all browser sound effects  

setup-text-color=0  
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue
works on pages with default text color 

setup-visited-color=8822bb  
YES/unofficial/setsetupvalue 
no apparent effect on WTV pages but there is on my HP.  

setup-japan-keyboard=roman  
NO/?/? (I have to wonder whether our wireless keyboard chips contain both English and Japanese characters)  

setup-japan-softkeyboard=norm  
NO/?/? 

setup-chat-access-level=0   
YES/official/wtv-setup:/validate.... see separate post (3 = no chat permitted) 

setup-chat-on-nontrusted-pages=1 
YES/official/? not sure what is is. it does NOT seem to be a setting like for "public rooms only. 
setup-tv-chat-level=0 (what is this?) 
YES/?/? 

setup-tv-log-disabled
NO/?/? (shows up on clientarg only) 

setup-chat-nick-attr-enabled
NO/?/? (shows up on clientarg only) 

setup-play-message-sound
NO/?/? (shows up on clientarg only) 

WTV-SETUP 
Another way to modify (hopefully add) a code in WTV-SETUP:/GET is though the account setup. For example (and this has to be done in the primary user else one would get the "subscriber only" warning) could this code be modified by adding on an element to the string?  It would be easier to try to modify the main user (since one could then go directly to GET to check for modifications) but the setup code must include the term "validate" in making changes to server files. (remember that YOUR code would contain YOUR personal info)  

wtv-setup:/VALIDATE-edit-subscriber-phone?user-id=XXXXXXX&user-human-name-first=john&user-human-name-last=ulTRAX&user-name=ulTRAX&user-email-name-first=&user-email-name-last=&user-password=&user-password2=&payment-method=credit-card&subscriber-billing-address=&subscriber-billing-city=brooklyn&subscriber-billing-state=NY&subscriber-billing-zip=XXXXX&subscriber-card-expires=0401&subscriber-card-number=&subscriber-card-type=master&subscriber-phone-day=XXX=XXXXXX&subscriber-phone-evening=&restricted-web-access=&email-access-denied=&tv-logs-disabled-mask=1  

NOTE: I added the TV LOG to the end of the string... Whether this  approach could work, who knows. It might but who knows whether we even have the correct code.  The servers don't seem to accept shortened versions of this code (though my experiments are not done) but I have to wonder whether additional elements could be added... such as 

&tv-log-disabled-mask=1
&tv-log-disabled-mask=on
&tv-log-disabled-mask=disabled
&tv-log-disabled-mask=enabled
&tv-log-disabled-mask=masked 

CONCLUSION 
The point of this exercise was to determine whether those elements we do NOT have official control over CAN, in fact, be controled. Granted it may make no difference whether we can change the background music's tempo... except that it's not something WNI wanted to give us control over.... like the TV LOGs.  I think the way to proceed is deduce codes we don't know from those we do. To that end I have identified two plus the various account set up codes. But there may be other actions out there we do not have pages for. Maybe there is a page we have no link to that allows us to disable the TV LOGS. Maybe there is a  

wtv-setup:/VALIDATE-edit-subscriber-tv-logs?user-id=XXXXXXX&user-human-name-first=john&user-human-name-last=ulTRAX&user-name=ulTRAX.... &tv-log-disabled-mask=1  

ClientArg may offer another clue, this code: wtv-setup:/set 
Wouldn't it be ironic if ClientArg turned out to be as easy to ready as the HD directories? LOL