WapProtocolFamily

WAP Protocol Family

The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) consists of a set of protocols that allow the deployment of Internet-like services on a lot of wireless network technologies.

History

The WAP Forum was founded in 1998.

There have been several releases of the standards:

The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) was founded in a very short time frame after the release of the WAP 2.0 specification. From that instant on, only bug fixes were added to the WAP 2.0 specification, and a new feature-based technology standardization approach was adopted. This way, the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) now publishes the MMS 1.1 and MMS 1.2 specifications for example, instead of a common OMA 1.1 specification.

Protocols

The WAP transport protocol stack is shown below:

WAP_Transport_Protocol_Stacks.jpg

Depending on the protocol stack, 4 different standard WDP (UDP) ports have been defined: 9200, 9201, 9202 and 9203. WSP can run on other ports too.

Wireshark

The WAP protocols in Wireshark are mature.

Example capture file

Example capture files for WAP protocols can be found at the SampleCaptures page.

Display Filter

See the individual WAP protocols.

Capture Filter

You cannot directly filter WAP protocols while capturing.

External links

Discussion


Imported from https://wiki.wireshark.org/WapProtocolFamily on 2020-08-11 23:27:19 UTC