Hi all,

i have just quickly read the WAP 2.0 specs, and it seems that you can
only access Web Servers from a WAP enabled mobile. Am i right ? Some
mobile operators make some offers with email access...so i don't
understand how e mail can be accessed as POP/IMAP,SMTP are not
supported by WAP.

Thanks

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totoy81@caramail.com (anth0) writes:
quote:

> i have just quickly read the WAP 2.0 specs, and it seems that you can
> only access Web Servers from a WAP enabled mobile. Am i right ? Some


I don't understand the question - I access web servers using Mozilla
on a Linux workstation.  Or do you mean you can only accesss *WAP*
servers using a WAP mobile?  I don't know the answer to this one, but
it seems unlikely - how would the server know if you were a mobile or
not?
quote:

> mobile operators make some offers with email access...so i don't
> understand how e mail can be accessed as POP/IMAP,SMTP are not
> supported by WAP.


Mobile operators are free to provide whatever services they like
however they like.  I can send email to many mobiles in the UK by
using an email-to-SMS gateway run by the mobile service provider, for
example.

--KW 8-)
--
Keith Wansbrough <kw217@cl.cam.ac.uk>
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/kw217/
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

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In article <yqcwu7mh7m0.fsf@astrocyte.cl.cam.ac.uk>,
Keith Wansbrough  <kw217@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
quote:
 
>
>I don't understand the question - I access web servers using Mozilla
>on a Linux workstation.  Or do you mean you can only accesss *WAP*
>servers using a WAP mobile?  I don't know the answer to this one, but
>it seems unlikely - how would the server know if you were a mobile or
>not?
> ...


No one except marketoons, salescritters, and trade rag espurts ever
said WAP made the least sense.

I think the WAP story included the notion of gateways translating
ordinary HTML/HTTP run by wireless carriers, as if a telephant dumb
enough to jump on the WAP bandwagon could manage such things.


Vernon Schryver    vjs@rhyolite.com

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