On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 01:37 PM, Stipe Tolj wrote:
There is more in MMS than just tokenized HTTP. You must be able to pushShridhar Raju wrote:
In my opinion, MMS is nothing but a glorified WAP. As capabilities of Mobile
terminals increasing day by day, newer media are transfered over WAP. WAP is
a building block for MMS.
that's true. But remember that basically you need only HTTP to transfer MMS messages. So WAP is used to encapsulate HTTP. You may leave it if you wanted to. (from the perspective of an device manufacturer).The problem would be that the officials would claim, that you are not allowed to call your device MMS-capable, because it does not follow the WAP specific specs. Stipe
notifications and delivery reports to the phone. 3GPP spec indeed mention future
IP based MMS. But:
a) protocol mentioned is WAP 2.0. (Which means wireless TCP and wireless
HTTP.)
b) it does not yet specify the push protocol.
Aarno