WAP Hosting
You do not need to use a special web server to support a WAP site
Majority of the web hosts today support WAP content Hosting ( however it is not a feature that is usually mentioned and boasted upon in the promotional packages and the hosting plans)
Basically when you access a web page using a PC based browser, the web
server tells your PC browser what kind of document it should expect.
This is done by using something called MIME-types. The common MIME type
for a plain HTML document is "text/html". However, for a WAP micro
browser, which cannot read HTML, the MIME type has to be different.So a
WAP host only need to have the proper MIME types configured for the
server.
If you do not have control over your Apache server, for instance if you
are with an ISP, it is also possible to add a file called .htaccess to
each directory where you have placed WML files. When the server reads
files from this directory, it will serve them according to the rules in
the .htaccess file.
MIME Types for WAP are given here
Some hosts like tagtag.com are dedicated to providing free WAP Hosting.
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