February 6th, 2004, 12:07 PM
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You should not have to do any AddTypes in Apache. In fact, I would take those out if I were you. The default mime types file contains all the necessary WML types. Apache can server WAP, WML, WBMPs, WMLScript, etc, with no problems. Basically, HTTP stands for "Hypertext Transfer Protocol" but it really has nothing to do with hypertext. It should more properly be called "transfer files with MIME type specified and allow the client to send files and data back" but that's not such a great acronym and I think that at the time HTTP was first created, there were no images, and so it really was used exclusively for hypertext.
Anyway, please contact me if you have some questions about how to set up WAP service. If you need a commercial WAP server solution that automatically transforms HTML into WML, reformats images and detects devices, and lets you do all of this with one URL for both wired and wireless users, also check out http://chiralsoftware.net.
As for it not working with your IP address in the URL, I have no idea why that is. Maybe the phone, or the gateway doesn't like IP addresses in URLs. Many devices and gateways have bugs or are not completely compliant with the relevant RFCs. One thing that is sometimes useful in figuring these questions out is to do a tcpdump on the server (with the relevant filters) while you attempt to hit the site from your phone, just to see if traffic is getting to your server at all. If no packets are getting there, and you are sure the IP addr is right, then that tells you where the problem is.
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Last edited by ChiralSoftware : March 10th, 2004 at 12:41 AM.
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