SprintPCS Wireless Web

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, J.L.Francois wrote:

> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:23:38 -0700
> From: J.L.Francois <frenchie@magusnet.gilbert.az.us>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: SprintPCS Wireless Web
>
> It seems like on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 07:14:41AM -0500, Nathan Saper scribbled:
> Orig Msg> Nope, I haven't found any others so far. On a somewhat separate note, do
> Orig Msg> you think it would be possible to create a wireless website that had a
> Orig Msg> backend to convert standard websites to the wireless format (in effect
> Orig Msg> browsing the standard web using the wireless site as a sort of proxy)?
> Orig Msg> This was done with the PalmVII to allow the wireless browsing of standard
> Orig Msg> websites.
> Orig Msg>
>
> Take a look at the IBM transcoder.
> Search at www.ibm.com
> It is an apache server running as a modified proxy to
> convert HTML to HDML/WAP/WML format.
>

Yeah, this looks good. Unfortunately, it's now out of beta, and IBM is
selling it. Too bad for a poor student like me. :(

> There is an SDK for doing this kind of stuff at
> http://www.phone.com
> that I used at American Express for a project there.
> I used the Perl tools and it worked great.
> It even has a cell phone emulator.
> I used it with Linux and WinNT with no problems.
>
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