.mal file element attributes

The table below describes the MALServer element’s attributes.

Table 1. .mal file attributes

Attribute

Type

Description

hostname
String

The server’s hostname or IP address.

port
Integer

Port at which to access the server.

username
String

The user’s username.

password
String

The user’s password.

passwordIsHashed
Boolean

If TRUE, the password has had the MD5 hash algorithm applied to it.

passwordIsEncoded
Boolean

If TRUE, the password is Base-64-encoded.

Note: A password that has been MD5 hashed must also be Base-64-encoded after the hash.

disabled
Boolean

If TRUE, this server is initially disabled. (Disabled servers are not accessed during a synchronization.)

friendlyName
String

The name used to identify this server in Mobile Link’s user interface. This is the name your users see if they open Mobile Link.

serverType
String

An identifier of the class or type of this Mobile Link server. This should be AvantGo .

userUrl
String

The URL to open when the user clicks the Content button for this server in the Mobile Link desktop application.

description
String

Reserved for future use.

serverUri
String

A URI specifying the requested resource from the synchronization server. This always should be set to /sync, which is the default.

sendDeviceInfo
Boolean

If TRUE, Mobile Link should send information about the mobile device to the server during a synchronization. This always should be TRUE .

hashPassword
Boolean

If TRUE, the server expects to receive an MD5-encoded password from the client during a synchronization.

If hashPassword is TRUE, and the passwordIsHashed attribute is FALSE, Mobile Link encodes the password when it parses the file.

confirmation
String

The message that Mobile Link should display to the user after it has added the server configuration specified in this file to the device profile.

confirmationcaption
String

A title that Mobile Link should display directly above the confirmation message.

allowSecureConnection
String

Indicates that the given server accepts secure connections if the client is able to connect securely.

connectSecurely
String

Indicates that the client should be configured to connect securely if it is able.