On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 16:05, Tobias Selig wrote: > Hi everbody! > > Can anybody explain me, how the download of large files via wap > is supposed to work? Many new mobile phones have nice features like > polyphonic ringtones in smaf format or can accept gifanimations as > background > images as well as java midlets. > > As the size of files is limited to something around 15kb, i wonder how i > can get around this limit? > > Is it enough to find the right code-spot in the kannel source? Or > can i somehow set a WML-Link, which does not use the gateway and > directly downloads the file via http connection.
Uh ? kannel (or any other wap gw) won't touch the file if it ain't a wml or wmlscript. You can request a gif without problems. > Sorry for the maybe dumb question. But actually i really wonder how this > should work. > > I assume that network providers will place an application server in > their network > for the java midlets.. But gif images and mmf files must go through the > wap gateway. > > The question is: How? Just set up the application server (*) and http server and everything should work. (*) I've seen an application server for java apps - to use with a motorola aquaplain 008 - and it's only a http server with a xml index somewhere in a /mot_download directory. Nothing special, but lots of $$$ asked :P > > Thank you > Tobias > > > > >
