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Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an obsolete technical standard for accessing information over a mobile cellular network. Introduced in 1999, [ 1 ] WAP allowed users with compatible mobile devices to browse content such as news, weather and sports scores provided by mobile network operators , specially designed for the limited ...
Wireless Markup Language (WML), based on XML, is an obsolete markup language intended for devices that implement the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) specification, such as mobile phones. It provides navigational support, data input, hyperlinks, text and image presentation, and forms, much like HTML (Hypertext Markup Language).
Encryption/Decryption at the gateway – in the WAP architecture the content is typically stored on the server as uncompressed WML (an XML DTD). That content is retrieved by the gateway using HTTP and compressed into WBXML, in order to perform that compression the gateway must be able to handle the WML in cleartext, so even if there is encryption between the client and the gateway (using WTLS ...
Wireless Application Protocol Bitmap Format (shortened to Wireless Bitmap and with file extension .wbmp) is a raster image file format optimized for early mobile computing devices. WBMP images are monochrome black and white binary images in which a black pixel is denoted by 0 and a white pixel is denoted by 1.
WPAN—Wireless Personal Area Network; WPF—Windows Presentation Foundation; WS-D—Web Services-Discovery; WSDL—Web Services Description Language; WSFL—Web Services Flow Language; WUSB—Wireless Universal Serial Bus; WWAN—Wireless Wide Area Network; WWID—World Wide Identifier; WWN—World Wide Name; WWW—World Wide Web
A WAP gateway sits between mobile devices using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) and the World Wide Web, passing pages from one to the other much like a proxy.This translates pages into a form suitable for the mobiles, for instance using the Wireless Markup Language (WML).
WAP Binary XML (WBXML) is a binary representation of XML.It was developed by the WAP Forum and since 2002 is maintained by the Open Mobile Alliance as a standard to allow XML documents to be transmitted in a compact manner over mobile networks and proposed as an addition to the World Wide Web Consortium's Wireless Application Protocol family of standards.
The Wireless Datagram Protocol (WDP), a protocol in WAP architecture, covers the Transport Layer Protocols in the Internet model. As a general transport service, WDP offers to the upper layers an invisible interface independent of the underlying network technology used.