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But the primary purpose of wApua is not to\nbe used on mobile phones but on Unix or Linux workstations to debug\nWAP WML pages without having to use a mobile phone or a potentially\nexpensive mobile data connection.\n\nwApua is written in the Perl programming language and uses\n[libwww-perl](https://github.com/libwww-perl/libwww-perl) and\n[Perl/Tk](https://github.com/eserte/perl-tk).\n\nFor installation see the file `INSTALL`.\n\n\nHistory\n-------\n\nwApua was developed because of frustration about commercial WML\nbrowsers ([WinWAP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinWAP) et al), that\ndidn't fit my requirements. In addition to that, none of them was able\nto run under diverse Unices, especially SunOS and Solaris, which were\nused as work-stations and servers at university.\n\nAnd those online WML to HTML converters are slow and not very useful\nfor debugging WML pages.\n\nSo on some day in spring 2000 I thought about writing a WML browser in\nTcl/Tk because some of my colleagues used that for simple-to-write\ngraphical user interfaces. But I haven't seen any Tcl code before,\nbecause I wrote most of those simple-to-write things in the Perl\nprogramming langauge. Then I discovered Perl/Tk and only a few days\nlater the first usable verison of wApua was ready for debugging\n[http://wap.dagstuhl.de/][0], which was part of my student's job back\nthen :-).\n\nI worked with wApua for about three or four months. Then someone asked\nat the [Heise WAP Forum][1] for a WAP WML browser for Linux and I set\nup [a little website][2] with some information and download\npossiblities, and [announced it on Freshmeat][3] (now named Freecode\nand dead).\n\n\nFeatures and Standards Support\n------------------------------\n\nwApua doesn't interpret all WML tags yet (e.g. no forms support),\nbut it especially interprets some tags that WinWAP 2.2/2.3 interprets\nvery rudimentary or even wrong, e.g. tables and the \u003cnoop/\u003e\ntag.\n\nGiven that WAP is more dead than\n[Gopher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)) and the\nwApua release intervals so far ranged from a few days to five years,\nthe chances are very low that I'll ever add additional features.\n\n\nConfiguration\n-------------\n\nwApua supports configuration via a configuration file `~/.wApua.rc`.\n\nSee the source code of `wApua/Config.pm` for configuration\npossibilities (colors, fonts, home page, paths, etc.). Every hash-key\nused there, can also be used in you configuration file `~/.wApua.rc`. In\naddition to that, every key (in the configuration file and `Config.pm`)\nbeginning with `HTTP_` is treated as HTTP header, which will be added\nto every request, that wApua makes. (There is one exception:\n`HTTP_Accept_Images` is the HTTP Accept header for retrieving\nimages). See the file `wApua.rc` for examples and an alternative\ncoloring scheme.\n\n\nStarting wApua\n--------------\n\n* If you start `wApua` without any options, wApua will start with the\n  home page configured in `Config.pm` or `.wApua.rc`.\n\n* Starting wApua with `wApua -f \u003cconfig-file\u003e` will start wApua and\n  read the configuration from `\u003cconfig-file\u003e`. If you want to suppress\n  the reading of .wApua.rc, start wApua with `wApua -f /dev/null`.\n  You may also start wApua with `wApua -f -` and it will read the\n  configuration from `STDIN`.\n\n* Any other command line parameter will be regarded as (more or\n  less) complete URL. If it's the name of an existing file, it will\n  be loaded, otherwise wApua will look up if it's a hostname and\n  after that being unsuccessful it will try to add some `www.` in\n  front and some `.com` at the end...  (Most heuristics done by\n  `URI::Heuristics`.)\n\n\nDownload\n--------\n\nThe latest versions and much more information about wApua can be found\nat the [wApua Home Page][2] and at [Freshmeat][3].\n\nYou may also try [wApua's WAP WML page][4] with some WML\nbrowser... :-)\n\n\nCopyright, License and Author\n-----------------------------\n\nwApua is copyright 2001-2017 by Axel Beckert \u003cwapua@deuxchevaux.org\u003e\nand licensed under the\n[GNU General Public License](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl) as\npublished by the [Free Software Foundation](https://www.fsf.org/),\neither [version 2](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0)\nor (at your option) any later version.\n\n[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20020126055438/http://wap.dagstuhl.de:80/\n[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010605003852/http://www.heise.de:80/ix/forum/go.shtml?list=1\u0026g=952686372_61\n     (German only)\n[2]: https://fsinfo.noone.org/~abe/wApua/\n[3]: https://web.archive.org/web/20190207232501/http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/wapua/\n[4]: https://fsinfo.noone.org/~abe/wApua/index.wml\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fxtaran%2Fwapua","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fxtaran%2Fwapua","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fxtaran%2Fwapua/lists"}