[JDEV] WAP Transport

[andjab at gordons.gen.nz]

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Erkka Marjakangas wrote:

> Is someone working or has there been discussion about a WAP(or
> mainly WAP-Push) transport?
 
> It would be neat feature to have ability to communicate with the
> mobile phones. I noticed there was some pager transport available(
> or under work). Will it evolve to the WAP direction or be a
> separate way to send like short messages...

I've written a very basic transport that does bi-directional (from
jabber first though) communication with GSM (SMS) cellphones.  It
isn't very nice, and just does messages.  The GSM cellphone company
here (Vodafone New Zealand) has a bidirectional SMS <-> email
gateway, so I just used that to get messages to and from a cellphone.

I'm no programmer and have only a very basic idea of how jabber works
so somebody else should be able to write a much better one.  I
basically just wrote it to see if I could.  Also only works with
people using Vodafone New Zealand and have signed up to use the email
gateway.

A really good one should be able to be written by cellphone companies
since they have full access to the cellphone network = access to text
messages AND presence information. (perhapes I should forward this
message to my cellphone company :-) ).

I guess this would work better as a client or by using that mod_filter
thing that I keep hearing about (message is forwareded to the
transport if no other client is online) so that the cellphone was the
last option used to get a message to somebody.

Andrew Gordon
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