Using URLs

As we've already seen in Chapter 1, "Understanding WAP," many standard HTML programming conventions have been translated directly to WAP. The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the format of the "address" a user needs to connect to and retrieve site information from the World Wide Web. It is the same standard that WML has adopted for locating resources on a network. A URL that navigates to a HTML page on the Internet looks like this:

http://www.wapforum.org/faqs/index.htm

URLs that navigate to WAP sites are structured in exactly the same way; they just send the user to a WAP site, rather than an Internet site. Because all WML browsers must conform to this standard, and implement URLs, you can use them effectively throughout your applications. ...

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