Jane,
#Here in Brazil we are beginning to talk seriously about WAP, and, of
course, how to keep this
#kind of traffic secure. I'd like to know if any of you have any experience
in that ground. Is there
#a specific firewall for WAP? Please, if you have any kind of
recommendations (products, guidelines),
#I would be grateful.
Correct me if I am wrong but this is what I found out about WAP when I was
researching its use with Domino Mobile Services.
WAP is a protocol that is usually used (from what I have seen) between
your mobile device (cell phone, pager, ect.) and your telephone service's
network. So, you would use WAP from your cell phone to the telephone
providers network then if you wanted to access your Lotus Notes e-mail
through Domino Mobile Services the rest of the session would go from a WAP
proxy server on the telephone providers network over HTTP to a Domino
server on your network. WAP uses several forms of cryptography for
protection. I'm pretty sure there are no WAP firewalls or WAP proxies for
firewalls. There could not be an application layer WAP proxy on a firewall
without the firewall having the encryption keys anyway so all you would be
doing is allowing any IP packet containing WAP through the firewall based
of of ip address, time, or other generic ip filtering rules. What are you
using WAP for? Check out www.wapforum.org for information on how WAP
works.
Regards,
Jeffery Gieser
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