Posted by tore on October 07, 1999 at 09:54:02:
In Reply to: WAP architecture posted by Livio on October 06, 1999 at 16:53:03:
Hello Livio, you find my comments in the text below
:
: Please correct me if I'm wrong:
: A mobile device sends a WML (or HTML?) message to the WAP server with a
: specified URL. The WAP server gets the file or application in the location
: the URL indicates. All the contents that aren't in the WML format are
: converted in this format by the HTML/WML filter and then are sent to the
: mobile device.
The gateway itself normally do not contain a filter.
The content on the web server should be generated or stored using wap formats.
Instead of html, wap spesifies wml which is an xml implementation.
Several developers around the world are now developing wap content
One way of generating wap pages is to use a html to wml filter
But as long as the internet site is not prepared for wml, a generic html to wml filter normally will result in a bad user experience
: If the mobile device browser were able to send a standard HTTP request is
: still necessary to have at the server side a WAP-browser or is it enough to
: have a typical internet browser and an HTML/WML filter only?
I believe I already answered this, but I am not shure I understood you question
: Is a classical internet browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, ...)able to parse wml messeges?
internet browsers are/will be capable of looking at xml pages, and xml is an xml implementation
I have tried using internet explorer, and it worked partially (you have to define the file type as text/html content)
I did not succeed using netscape, but i have not put much effort into it
Regards
Tore
: Regards
: Livio