Publish the app

[Sergio-Muriel]

Hi,

Why isn't the app in the marketplace?
It is functional.

Thanks,

[chuckwagoncomputing]

The tester(s) have had issues connecting to servers. I haven't been able to reliably replicate the problem, so I don't know where to look to fix it and yet can't get it into marketplace.

[cbaldini]

Please publish it on marketplace. There are so many apps that doesnt work 100% and this app is very necessary. Must be usefull to see at least a test of ssh connection on my phone with FFOS. I leave you my mail if you can tell me another way to make it run: [email protected]. Thanks a lot for your job.

[Sergio-Muriel]

The FFOS marketplace is not longer maintained by mozilla, and there is no "upload version" button anymore.

[AntoineTurmel]

Sad, now waiting for TCPConnect to be standardized and implemented elsewhere...
https://www.w3.org/TR/tcp-udp-sockets/

[cbaldini]

We should find a way to install the app without marketplace...

[AntoineTurmel]

You can do so using WebIDE on Firefox Desktop.

[cbaldini]

But I need to do it in a cellphone, the ZTE Open 2...

[AntoineTurmel]

Well you can connect your phone using WebIDE and then push the app

[cbaldini]

Really?? Great! Thanks!!

[AntoineTurmel]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/WebIDE
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/WebIDE/Setting_up_runtimes#Connecting_a_Firefox_OS_device

[cbaldini]

Thanks a lot for the info!!! I'll try it and I'll tell you if I've success with the app...

[cbaldini]

I'm trying to open the app from the WebIDE, but it seems that something is wrong with the manifest:
Unicación

https://github.com/chuckwagoncomputing/fxos-firemote/blob/master/manifest.webapp

El manifiesto de webapp no es un archivo JSON válido: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 5 column 1 of the JSON data en: https://github.com/chuckwagoncomputing/fxos-firemote/blob/master/manifest.webapp

I'm trying to validate ir with the marketplace validator tool at https://marketplace.firefox.com/developers/validator and it shows me:
La validación de tu app ha fallado con 2 errores.

JSON Parse Error
Manifests must be served with the HTTP header "Content-Type: application/x-web-app-manifest+json". See https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/Apps/Manifest#Serving_manifests for more information.

It seems that there's not http header in the manifest or I'm doing something wrong?

Thanks.

[cbaldini]

I solved it downloading the zip file, extracting and installing manually. I'm trying the client now 👯‍♀️

[cbaldini]

Well the app open now but I can't open any ssh connection. Only telnet works...

[cbaldini]

No one knows how to fix it?

[chuckwagoncomputing]

As has been noted, Firefox OS is quite dead. I've dried my tears and moved on. Maybe when a TCP socket API is standardized, Firemote will rise again. Until that day I've stopped dumping time and effort into it. I did attempt to find the issue but it only failed for me once or twice, then worked reliably no matter what I did. I even reinstalled the simulator. No luck. If the death of Firefox OS hadn't been announced at that point, I would have pressed the issue further, but no hope is no hope.
So I can't help you, or won't. I am truly sorry.
Firefox OS is dead. May it live long in our dreams.