WAP Resources, Emulators, WML Editors and WBMP converters, etc

(Wireless Application Protocol)

Articles and things

• Article: "The WAP Trap: An Exposé of the Wireless Application Protocol": http://www.freeprotocols.org/wapTrap/one/main.html] | UK CCP14 based mirror]
• Article: "W* Effect Considered Harmful" (has some overall WAP formation history at then end) ("The other approach is to throw everything out and reinvent the entire protocol stack from scratch."): http://www.ics.uci.edu/~rohit/IEEE-L7-WAP.html | http://www.4K-Associates.com/4K-Associates/IEEE-L7-WAP.html
• Article: "Attacks against the WAP WTLS Protocol, published in the proceedings of CMS '99 (postscript).": http://www.jyu.fi/~mjos/wtls.ps | http://www.jyu.fi/~mjos/wtlspap.txt | http://www.jyu.fi/~mjos/wtls.pdf
• Article: "LEAP: One Alternative to WAP": http://www.freeprotocols.org/leap-oneAlternative/
• Efficient Short Remote Operations Protocol (ESRO).: http://www.esro.org
• Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery Protocol (EMSD): http://www.emsd.org
• Efficient Hyper Text Delivery Protocol (EHTD): http://www.freeprotocols.org/EHTD
• Open source implementations of the ESRO and EMSD protocols are being made available as free software: http://www.MailMeAnywhere.org/
• Free Protocols Foundation website (FPF): http://www.FreeProtocols.org
• LEAP website (Lightweight & Efficient Application Protocol): http://www.LeapForum.org

WAP FAQ, and WAP web simulator to test pages

• WAP at Yahoo: http://english.hk.yahoo.com/science/engineering/electrical_engineering/telecommunications/wireless/wireless_application_protocol__wap_/

• The Independent WAP FAQ: http://wap.colorline.no/wap-faq/

• WAP Links: http://www.waplinks.com/

• MWIF (Mobile Wireless Internet Forum): http://www.mwif.org/

• Wapjag (News and info): http://www.wapjag.de/

• WAP Hole Sun (news and info): http://www.wapholesun.com/
• WAPCam: http://wap.colorline.no/wap-faq/apps/wapcam.html
• setup a NT Ras server to accept remote connections from mobile devices: http://www.egroups.com/docvault/wmlprogramming/ntras/index.htm
• WAP gateway to the Microsoft Exchange Server, with the SOURCES: http://www.juul.stejle.dk/presse/fieldoffice/fieldoffice_eng.asp
• "WebDynamite has developed a Telnet client for WAP mobiles": http://www.webdynamite.com/

• WAP: What's with the HTTP server MIME types?: http://wap.colorline.no/wap-faq/?format=html&pair=04.002

  # MIME Types for WAP
       AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
       AddType image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp
       AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlc .wmlc
       AddType text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .wmls
       AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc

• Warning that some of these are misdefined in mime.types in Apache 1.3.12 (fix in Mime.types)
• index.wml as a default page.
• WML (Wireless Mark-up Language)
• WAP: I'm new to WAP, and there are so many new expressions. Is there a glossary?: http://wap.colorline.no/wap-faq/?format=html&pair=01.017
• WAP: How do I prevent a WML deck from being read from the cache?: http://wap.colorline.no/wap-faq/?format=html&pair=04.005
• WAP Demos: http://wap.colorline.no/demos.html

• WAP User Agent Lists and their Accept Headers: http://amaro.g-art.nl/useragent/
• Quick Access e-mail by Hicon: http://www.hicon.nl/qa.htm
• WAP E-mail Gateway by HTTPWorks: http://www.httpworks.com
• Wispie E-mail/Web WAP Gateway (like Hotmail?): http://wispie.com/
• "Attacks against the WAP WTLS Protocol": http://www.jyu.fi/~mjos/wtls.pdf
• "Building WAP Services: XML And ASP Will Set Your Free" (basic background, examples and resources): http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2000/03/passani/

WAP Emulators

• Wapalizer WAP Javascript emulator for Web Browsers: http://www.gelon.net
• WAP Page Webserver report: http://www.gelon.net/dev/
• WAP WBMP Image retrieval Webserver report: http://www.gelon.net/dev/
• WAP Emulators: http://www.waplinks.com/emulators.asp
• Nokia SDK Emulator for Windows is available for download(?): http://wap.colorline.no/wap-faq/?format=html&pair=06.001
• WAPMAN for Windows WAP Emulator: http://virtuacom.com/wap/downloads/downloads.htm
• WINWAP for Windows WAP Emulator: http://www.slobtrot.com/winwap/index.htm
• EasyWap on-line Emulator: http://www.easywap.ch
• Wapsody Java based WAP Emulator: http://alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/techmain/wapsody
• Wappy.to WAP Emulator plugin for Internet Explorer: http://wappy.to/index.html
• WAP Emulator Applet: http://waplet.sourceforge.net/
• Nokia SDK Software Development Guide (freeware - though looks like you have to order the "free" cd-rom): http://www.forum.nokia.com | http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/1,6668,1_5,00.html | http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/1,6668,1_5_1,00.html | (Finally, near the Download Page): http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/1,6668,1_5_1_4,00.html
• KBrowser Emulator (for Java?): http://www.4thpass.com/KBrowser/index.html
• Ericsson has the R380 simulator (got to register in their developer area): http://www.ericsson.com/wap http://www.ericsson.com/developerszone/

WAP WML Toolkits

• wml-tools for Linux/UNIX (e.g., wbmp2xpm, wmlhtml, wml decompilers, wbmp2xpm): http://pwot.co.uk/wml/
• Amaro's Lab - Project "TRANSWAP" ("TRANSWAP is an (web) application that makes from your existing web page a WAP compatible one, just by adding a couple of special tags"): http://amaro.g-art.nl/info.html

WAP WML Page Editors

• WAPPage WAP Page Editor: http://www.wapmine.com/
• WAPtor WAP Page Editor: http://www.waptop.net/waptor/
• WMLEdit WAP Page Editor: http://www.hoiley.com/dl.htm

• DotWAP Freeware WAP Page Editor (most excellent and easy to use): http://www.inetis.com/english/solutions_dotwap.htm

• Visual Pulp Open Source Freeware WAP Page Editor: http://www.wapholesun.com/visualpulp_wml_editor.htm

• WAPthis WAP Page Editor (most excellent and easy to use): http://www.WAPthis.com

WAP happy Image Manipulation

• Nokia 7110's screen height and width is 96 x 65 pixels
• Ericsson MC218 has screen height and width is 640 x 320 pixels

• SABWBMP for Windows and UNIX (Big_Endian/Little_Endian Computers): http://www.DroidWarez.com/sabwbmp/

• ImageMagick Graphics Converter, Viewer and Manipluation for Windows and UNIX (including command line options)
  • Latest versions can handle WAP WBMP format. ("With ImageMagick you can create GIFs dynamically making it suitable for Web applications.")
  • At ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/
  • At ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.html
  • Download mirrors: ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMagick/ImageMagick.html

• WAP Pictus FREEware for Java: http://www.checkit.cz/engl/download/download.html
• pbmwbmp - Convert between pbm and wbmp files (with Linux C source code - possibly only will work on Little Endian computers)): http://www.looplab.com/wap/tools/
• Teraflops Computing LTD : an Online Wireless Bitmap Converter (Free of Charge) (GIF, JPEG and BMP as input and outputs WBMP): http://www.teraflops.com/wbmp/
• Independent JPEG Group's free JPEG software: Libraries and conveters/utilties (does not handle WBMP but is useful for resizing and creating 2 colour BMP files): ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
• WapTiger BMP to WBMP Converter for Linux and DOS (with C source code - only will work on Little Endian computers): http://www.waptiger.de/download.html
• GraphicConverter for Mac: http://www.lemkesoft.de/us_gcabout.html
• GraphicConverter for Mac: http://www.lemkesoft.de/us_gcabout.html
• pic2wbmp (Java Runtime Environment 1.1): http://www.gingco.de/wap/
• WBMPcreator (Java bean): http://www.wap-shareware.com
• GIMP wbmp plug-in: http://registry.gimp.org/detailview.phtml?plugin=wbmp
• Photoshop/Paintshop Pro WBMP plugin: http://www.rcp.co.uk/distributed/Downloads
• WBMP tool. (Java based) (read a WBMP file and convert it into Image object): http://www.wapholesun.com/files/wbmp.zip
• WBMPcreator for Java (in-fly-wbmp-creator): http://wbmpcreator.iproject.ru/
• WAPDraw for Windows (Create wbmp files): http://www.phnet.fi/public/jiikoo/

• Error diffusion method to quantize images: http://www.cs.rit.edu/~sxc7922/Project/ErrorDiffusion.htm
• (TYPE 0: B/W, Uncompressed Bitmap - WAP WAE Specification (version 24-May-1999)): http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htm
• information on pbm files and other pbm tools: ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/graphics/graphics/packages/NetPBM/
• Latest JPG libraries and programs for UNIX: ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/
• Independent JPEG Group: http://www.ijg.org
• ZLIB libraries for UNIX: ftp://quest.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/
• pic2wbmp Specifications: http://www.gingco.de/wap/content/download_specs.html

Other WAP links and things

• WAP and ASP - Part I (dynamic content): http://www.asptoday.com/articles/19991115.htm
• Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Tutorial: http://www.webproforum.com/wap/index.html
• WAP'ing a webpage: http://wap.editthispage.com/wapaccess
• WAPNET: http://www.wap.net/
• GNUws (Open Source Unix Wap Gateway): http://www.wapgw.org/
• WAPNET (development kits and source code): http://www.wap.net/devkit/index.html
• WAPMAP of London: http://www.wap.net/devkit/wapmap.html
• "With Xift, you can find Web pages, navigate among them and view them live - on your phone": http://www.xift.com/
• Gaddo.net ( free scripts, resources, articles, tutorials and links for developers): http://www4.ewebcity.com/gaddo/
• Open Source WAP Gateway (anyone can have a WAP Gateway): http://www.wapgateway.org
• OpenWAP (open source effort for WAP stack and applications.): http://www.openwap.org/
• WAP! Content: 1 - Design: 0: http://www.evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=687

HTML to TXT Converters and Information

• HTML to text converter Version 1.01 (perl script) (very good and solid!! - Lachlan)
  • At http://www.ftls.org/en/examples/perl-tools/html2txt.shtml

• Markup Remover v1.1 (for Windows)
  • At http://www.aquaticmoon.com/markrm.html

• HTML to ASCII Converters (links to Windows programs)
  • At http://www.computerdude.net/Shareware/HTML_ASCII.htm

• html2txt - HTML to text converter (Linux binaries and Pascal source?)
  • At http://penguinfiles.com/software/listings/Utilities/1360
  • At ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/mirrors/sunsite/pub/Linux/apps/www/converters/html2txt0991.tar.gz

• HTML Markdown (for Mac)
  • At http://www.printerport.com/klephacks/markdown.html

• Web2Text by Damien Burke (for Windows)
  • At http://www.softcom.net/users/mikey719/freeware_page3.html
  • At http://www.softcom.net/users/mikey719/web2text_screenshot.html

• Free HTML to ASCII converter Information
  • At http://www13.w3.org/Tools/html2ascii.html

• HTMLCHEK: Free HTML to ASCII converter Information
  • At http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/htmlchek.html
  • At ftp://ftp.cs.buffalo.edu/pub/htmlchek/

• HTML Parser
  • At http://dri.cornell.edu/pub/davis/html-parser.html
  • At ftp://dri.cornell.edu/pub/davis/

• HTMLess (The fastest HTML to TXT converter on the Web)
  • At http://www.oz.net/~sorth/

• html2ascii/htmltoascii html to ascii converter (PS/DOS/Windows)
  • At http://www.primenet.com/~smbaker/htm2asc/sbh2a.html
  • At http://smbaker.simplenet.com/htm2asc/sbh2a.html

• HTML converters
  • At http://html.about.com/compute/html/msubhtmlconverters.htm

• txt2HTML Converter
  • At http://www.aigeek.com/txt2html/

ASCII Text Search and Replace Software

• BKReplace/BK ReplaceEm for Windows
  • Freeware - Powerful and solid search and replace software for Windows.
  • Multiple search replace - search-replacements rules in one pass and have applied to > 12,000 html files.
  • Will stitch broken lines together, etc.
  • At http://www.orbit.org/replace/

  • CARDWARE to 
       Bill Klein
       7907 Wavell Rd.
       Cote St. Luc
       Quebec, Canada
       H4W-1M1

• replace for UNIX - replace 2.01 - The sane person's alternative to sed
  • Search and replace in text (replaces sed and perl - hurrah!!)
  • At http://replace.richardlloyd.org.uk
  • Manpage at http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Users/replace-2.01/man.html
  • Download at http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Users/replace-2.01/
  • Download at ftp://hpux.connect.org.uk/hpux/Users/replace-2.01/

• Greppes Text Tools for DOS
  • Search and replace in text and other tools. Freeware
  • At http://info.apnpc.com.au/swlib/Computer_Programming/Programmers_Utilities/000SKR.html

• AD Search&Replace (Shareware)
  • Search and replace in text and other tools. Windows 95/98/NT
  • At http://www.tiklsoft.com/word/2922.html

• Tessera Search & Replace 1.05 for Win9x
  • "Tessera Search & Replace is a free utility that searches multiple files for text strings. It also allows any occurrences found in the searched files to be replaced. Requires the VB6 Runtimes."
  • At http://www.bigfoot.com/~zurob/tessera/sr/

• Multi Search and Replace 1.1 For Win9x/NT4
  • "Multi Search and Replace v1.1 - A 32-bit Win95/NT application which allows you to replace a string of characters (or words) with one of your choosing on one or more files. Extremely fast and flexible with complete logging. Will work with any file that is readable in a text editor. Not for use with binary files."
  • At http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/5480/

• TreeRep 2.0 For Win95/NT
  • "With this program you can select any files anywhere on your computer or on the network and do search and replacement on them. In fact, you can replace a string in all the files in a directory. If you like, you can even replace a string in all the files in the current directory and in all the files in all the subsequent subdirectories - which I call tree-wide string replacement." Needs VB40032.DLL
  • At http://www.uhu.com/tinkershop/

• Text Search and Replace Tools
  • At http://newapps.internet.com/appstopics/Win_95_Text_Search_and_Replace_Tools.html

• FileScan
  • Search and replace in text.
  • At http://ms-soft.virtualave.net/filescan/filescan.shtml

• CCGrep 98
  • Search and replace in text. (Windows, freeware, simple to use)
  • At http://www.cybercreek.com/ccgrep/