Posted by Bfarn
Is this possible? I'm not familiar enough with these technologies, but it seems like a box with a dedicated network connection and also a modem could act as a GSM dialup? Am I being ridiculously simplistic here?
I have found a software package called Wap-Serv, but I think this might require more infrastructure and equipment than just a modem and a DSL connection.
Thanks for your help
Posted by jplacson
AFAIK, a WAP server costs a lot more than a full blown HTML server... (Dumb huh?) Despite the fact that a WAP page only contains text and very small images... in a very, very basic language.
Posted by Bfarn
Maybe WAP server is the wrong term...
Since I don't know all of my terminology I'll just use very simple terms and you can correct (and educate) me.
I mean a mobile internet Dialup that I can use to completely circumvent my provider (T-mobile usa)'s T-Zones service.
T-Zones, as I understand it, is essentially an ISP for my cell phone. When GPRS fails (since I don't pay for that service) it dials a phone number and gets an internet connection that way.
The reason I wonder all of this: I can't connect to yahoo and browse for yellow page listings and whatnot, but if I point my (SonyEricsson T300) phone's browser to a specific file on the Internet it can download it. I currently don't have any mobile internet service with my account, and am not charged other than minute usage for downloading midi files from my PC over the internet. I believe that t-mobile sees this as a regular phone call, and I would like to exploit this logic by setting up my own dialup.
I don't know if I'm being clear, since I'm not sure about all of this myself... but I think you can get my general point.
Posted by markgamber
Actually, a WAP service IS an HTML server...the only difference between the two is WAP uses port 9201 as opposed to regular HTTP which uses port 80. I can't speak for all servers, but it takes about 15 seconds (literally) to set up a WAP site using Windows' IIS and doesn't cost a dime extra.
Posted by doubleduh
You can just set the correct mime-type for the .wml pages in your web-server and your phone will accept it
Posted by markgamber
True *if* it's through port 9201. I know the T300 will also use port 80 because of it's xHTML support, but I'm guessing if your phone only does WML, it also only uses 9201. I've had a blast slapping together a wap site, however. My first project was a SQL Server manager just to see if it was doable and it worked out pretty well!
Posted by doubleduh
My T68i never had a problem with port 80... But it's also possible that my web-server (Apache 2) sets the portnumber for .wml files automatically, I don't know...
Posted by Bfarn
I think I see where I've been confusing... I'm not trying to serve up WAP pages, I'm trying to provide myself with dialup access. I would just call a land-line, tell my phone that it's a data call rather than voice, and essentially run my own mobile's ISP. Is this something that requires special modems and whatnot? Or is this more like running a little server app from windows that waits for phone calls and acts as a gateway...
Posted by Cytech
haven't seen any free software for running a WAP gateway under Windows... but use Google and you might find something...