Hi,

Sorry for answering so lately, but somehow i've been kicked from the list.
Now i subscribed again and found some answers to my questions in the list
archive...

Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> > Yes, it's made for cellular phones, but the phone doesn't directly talk
> > http to a web server, but talks wap to a wap server (or gateway) which
> > either produces the content itself or translates the request into http,
> > sends it to a web server, and gives the answer back to the phone.
>
> Right. So you want to be able to talk WTP (Wireless Transaction Protocol)
> with a WAP server/gateway to get its contents?

Exactly! I found some wap clients in the web, but they are mostly written
in Java and have a gui, while i'm looking for a simple but powerful
commandline-tool like curl.

> Well I guess it is a fair idea. It seems it can be used ontop of IP. It does
> however seems like quite a bit of work. You know of any open source
> initiative to talk this protocol?

www.kannel.org There's a mailinglist too, and as far as i understood the
discussions there, they support only the server side of the wap protocol stack
until now, but there are efforts to also implement the client side.

Bye,
Georg
Received on 2000-07-03