Re: Download of large Files (gif / mmf / jad / jar)

Bruno David Rodrigues wrote:

>On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 16:05, Tobias Selig wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi everbody!
>>
Hi Bruno...

>>
>>Can anybody explain me, how the download of large files via wap
>>is supposed to work? Many new mobile phones have nice features like
>>polyphonic ringtones in smaf format or can accept gifanimations as 
>>background
>>images as well as java midlets.
>>
>>As the size of files is limited to something around 15kb, i wonder how i
>>can get around this limit?
>>
>>Is it enough to find the right code-spot in the kannel source? Or
>>can i somehow set a WML-Link, which does not use the gateway and
>>directly downloads the file via http connection.
>>    
>>
>
>Uh ? kannel (or any other wap gw) won't touch the file if it ain't 
>a wml or wmlscript.
>You can request a gif without problems.
>
WRONG!!!
You can only request a gif file, if it doesn´t exceed 15KB.. and believe 
me, it´s hard to create
a gif-animation with 128x128 pictures and more than 2 pictures within 
which is smaller than 15KB.
I can try to get a log of the errormessage kannel spits out...

>>Sorry for the maybe dumb question. But actually i really wonder how this
>>should work.
>>
>>I assume that network providers will place an application server in 
>>their network
>>for the java midlets.. But gif images and mmf files must go through the 
>>wap gateway.
>>
>>The question is: How?
>>    
>>
>
>Just set up the application server (*) and http server and everything 
>should work.
>
>(*) I've seen an application server for java apps - to use with a 
>motorola aquaplain 008 - and it's only a http server with a xml index
>somewhere in a /mot_download directory. Nothing special, but lots
>of $$$ asked :P 
>
My problem is not HOW to download, but HOW to get around the size limit 
of Kannel...
Regardless wether it is smaf *.mmf.. or a midlet *.jar (ok *.jad to 
download).. If the size exceeds
a certain limit, all i get is an error from the gateway. And i think it 
should be possible to set this size limit
to 50kb ourdays. But maybe the WML spec forbids something like that, i´m 
no expert.

Best Regards
Tobias