Re: [ILUG] WAP server for Linux

From: Justin Mason (jm at domain jmason.org)
Date: Tue 25 Jul 2000 - 11:48:28 IST


Dave O Connor said:

> That's a web server. He was looking for a WAP server, which was something
> different completely. A web server serves out pages. A WAP server takes
> requests from phones dialled on through an access server, and makes requests
> on behalf of the hpones to web servers. It can also act as an SMSC.

There's a thread on bugtraq right now (or it could be vuln-dev) talking
about the Nokia WAP gateway -- it's java so there should be no probs
running it on Linux (sloooowly) from the sounds of things. It may be
commercial though.

Note that you should use a firewall to block direct IP from outside to the
dial-in pool, otherwise a simple portscan will crash Nokia phones
apparently ;)

--j.

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