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Published: 25.04.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'WAP Technology', 1.
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What is WAP?
Wireless Application Protocol, is an open protocol that coordinates the communication between mobile devices and a WAP gateway, which is a server installed in the mobile phone network; the gateway receives requests from WAP mobile devices, routes it to the concerned HTTP server which process the request and makes a response, either directly (as in simple HTTP server), or after processing it and collecting data from various sources,(as in Dynamic pages, ASP,JSP,PHP,..., using databases, etc...). …

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