Posted by Jason Barnett on 01/21/05 17:08

Mikey wrote:
>>Hi again - thought it best to keep the two topics separately...
>>
>>I have just leased a virtual hosting package and want to provide GPRS
>>access to my email server using WML.

<disclaimer>I have never built a site that served WML, but I know a
small bit about it</disclaimer>

>>
>>Now I have a couple of test pages that I have put up on the server that I
>>want to view, but can't seem to get to them. I am not really sure about
>>how GPRS works, but I thought that any internet server could serve WML as
>>long as it was valid.

OK Google tells me GPRS is this:
http://www.gsmworld.com/technology/gprs/intro.shtml#1
(Sorry, like I said I've never served WML before!)

I definitely have never treaded into these waters. If GPRS is a
protocol that is built on top of HTTP then I can think of no reason why
your Apache server shouldn't be able to do this. The main task, I
think, would then be to check the browser's user-agent and generate WML
if it is a browser built for a phone.

Lucky you... I actually looked through some packages once upon a time to
serve WML. I remember liking what I saw from HAWHAW; perhaps it will
work for you?

This link will probably help you out:
http://www.hawhaw.de/faq.htm

>>
>>I have read a little about gateways and from what I have read it seems
>>that it would be my phone company that was responsible for providing that.

AFAIK yes, mobile phone companies provide the gateways to the net.
Sprint actually has a lot of stuff out there to help developers provide
content to their system, but I never got into it much (I remember it
being more work than my just-for-fun project justified).

>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Mikey
>
>
> Any takers for this question?
>
> Purrrrlease?!?!?


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