WAP, ASP and PWS

Hi all,

Just joined and I am relatively new to ASP and web servers. I am building a travel guide fr a mobile device and am looking at ASP to create some dynamic content. My problm is that I cant get my WAP browser to load asp files I have added the header to the document but the problem i think is with the declaration of the MIME types. I am on Win 98 with PWS and am finding it hard to find out where I can configure this as the books I have only show how in NT. Thanks for your help.

jimbo

Hey - welcome to the forums. Just a note for the future, could you please read the rules on posting, as 'help' isnt a very helpful title.

As for the problem: are you getting an error, or is nothing oading? Check the server logs (does PWS have them? to see if the page was served to the device. From what I've heard, if you want to do anything other than straight-up HTML/ASP serving, you'll really want IIS

Also, do you really need to use WAP - it's a dead technology.

Thanks for the reply.

Is IIS available for Win 98? I always thought it was an NT based web server. Reason for using WAP is to produce a main project for college. I have been doing Internet Computing and wanted to do something different other than a website, which about 50 other people on my course are doing.

Here, I think this article might help you out with the trouble you're having: http://www.aspfree.com/authors/mich...aspwithwml2.asp

I would recommend WAP 2.0 that uses just XHTML and CSS.
It's much cooler than the old WAP 1 using decks and WML

I recently built a tic-tac-toe using W2 as an school project,
http://nemendur.ru.is/sverrir01/mylla/

The only problem with W2 is that not all phones are compatible..

True, forgot that fact yesterday.
Hopefully we don't have to wait to long for that to happen.

Thanks for the correction

NP.. I work for a wireless telecomunications company who supports both W1 and W2...

More than likely, honestly, there won't be an upgrade for W1 phones as it would usually require a software update for the internal browsers... you could always write a script that determines the version of the browser and thereby determines the kind of Wap it supports, and then redirects based on the support.. IE: if it only has W1 support, show that content, etc..

And also, keep in mind W2 is usually only for devices such as PDA's or any wireless device that offers the "Third Generation" technology.. or in other words the company offers high speed data over a wireless link.. which only a couple of providers in the United states offer... Sprint PCS has their Vision services <my company > , and ATT has the mLife services currently. Verizon will be offering it soon however..

If a device is built for 3G techonology it'll definatley have a normal browser in it. i.e. not a WAP browser.

Just look @ the new P800's - Opera's new, excellent (from all reports) "small screen" technology does away with WAP (thank goodness) and makes the whole "browsing-while-on-the-train" experience worthwhile!

Depends.. some have html capable browsers, actually.. xml... and some still have wap2 compatibility.. also it depends on the network you're running off of