Publishing to the WAP Server

WAP documents and applications should be thoroughly tested before they are published to the world. Testing is best done with an emulator, such as the Nokia WAP Toolkit. Testing should also be done, if possible, using several different WAP devices and browsers, to make sure the documents look acceptable, at least on the most commonly used browsers.

Once document functionality has been thoroughly tested on one’s own computer, the documents can be transferred to an origin WAP server for the world to view. This transfer is done using either a character-based or a graphical FTP program. One of the most popular and easy to use graphical FTP programs is WS_FTP . This program allows you to send your files up to the WAP server, via the FTP protocol. You must send all code files – WML and WMLScript, as well as any image files that your documents reference. Currently all WAP browsers recognize WBMP format for images since this is part of the WAP standard. Some WAP browsers also recognize GIF and JPG formats, but usually mobile phones only accept WBMP format images.