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Web Hosting Articles >> WAP web hosting services explainedWAP web hosting services explainedAuthor: AnnaAdded: September 9, 2007 Views: 98 Rating: No Rating Yet WAP (wireless application protocol) is used to deliver information to the users that access Internet from their mobile devices. Thus it is a communication protocol that interprets web pages in a specific way. In nowadays market place that uses the highest standards of technology and communication services WAP hosting services have become a “must have” for any web site. You should enable people to visit your web resource not only using personal computer, but also using handsets as well at any time. How does WAP work? Non technically speaking, a mobile device sends a certain request via wireless application protocol to a special gateway server. Then the URL (uniform resource locator) is interpreted and content is sent back using the same WAP gateway to the initiator of the request. It is worth mentioning, that WAP can work under nearly any wireless networks, such as commonly used GSM, CDMA, TDMA, DECT and many others. A reliable web hosting company must strictly follow the reactions to the challenges of the fast growing communication market and can gladly offer its customers to host their WAP web sites as WAP hosting functionality included in its range of services. What do you need to get started? Surely first of all you should create a WAP web site. For this you should use one of the WML tools available. WML is wireless markup language and is quite similar to HTML, being its analogue. Its good to register .mobi domain name that is used in WAP industry. Markup language is based on XML and is used to specify how the text should be interpreted, to specify the hierarchy of screens (known as decks) and hyperlinks between the screens. The difference between HTML and WML languages only lays in the title content-type that is text/html for HTML page and text/vnd.wap.wml for a standard WML document. Use the benefits that WAP hosting can bring to you. WAP hosting service will allow millions of users that use mobile Internet services to access your website and information contained on it from all round the world at any time Talk about this article in the webmaster forums! More Web Hosting Articles |
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