Chapter 1. Understanding WAP
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WAP stands for Wireless Application Protocol, the de facto standard for wireless computing managed by a consortium of vendors called the WAP Forum. WAP does for wireless devices what HTTP does for Web browsers—it allows them to become clients in an Internet-based client/server world.
So what exactly is WAP? WAP is a protocol, a data transport mechanism. In many ways it is similar to HTTP (the protocol that the Web uses for data transport), and WAP was also built on top of established standards, such as IP, URLs, and XML. But WAP was designed from the ground up for wireless computing, and was built to accommodate the unique and fundamental limitations ...
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