Andrew Enfield \(MS\)
9/8/2004 11:16:00 PM
I''m not sure what you mean by ''broadcast web requests over the air.'' An
internet-enabled phone or PDA can access content in one of two ways (at
least as I understand it):
- Pull. At a high level, this is no different than accessing the internet
from a PC. The connection happens wirelessly over GPRS, CDMA 1x, or whatever
transport the phone/PDA uses, but again, at a high level, the phone is just
requesting content from a server, and the server is just returning that
content. If you''re using the ASP. NET mobile controls to author pages, you
just need a provider that has ASP .NET, as well as internet-enabled phones
or PDAs.
- Push. SMS (or perhaps there are other ''push'' methods?). Most providers -
AT&T, T-Mobile, etc. - have an email interface to their SMS systems, so you
can send an email message to a particular address - like xyz@tmomail.net, I
think - and an SMS message will be sent to a particular phone. I don''t have
any experience with push beyond this, so I don''t know if you''d be able to do
what you''re talking about, or if there are other push options. If you want
more info here, this newsgroup probably isn''t the best place - not sure
where else off the top of my head you could check.
Hope this helps.
--
Andrew Enfield
Programmer Writer, Windows CE
This posting is provided AS IS with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"ray well" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> andrew
>
> thanks for the link.
>
> i wasn''t looking for a general .net hosting service, i was aware of that.
>
> i''m looking for a hosting site so that people using an enabled pda, or a
> browser enabled phone, could connect to a site over the air without
> needing
> a physical connection. this site in addition to having the net framwork,
> also needs to broadcast web requests over the air.
>
> i would appreciate some info for this.
>
> thanks
>
> ray
>
>