wapua(1p)

wapua1p

Web browser for wap wml pages

Usage

wApua [-f configfile] [-d debuglevel] [starturl]
wApua (-h|--help|--usage)

Overview

wApua is a browser for WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) pages written in the Wireless Markup Language (WML). It supports WML 1.1 and 1.2 except forms.

It is written in Perl and uses the Perl/Tk library for its GUI and libwww-perl for the network parts. So it supports all transport protocols, libwww-perl (LWP) supports.

Options

-h, --help, --usage

Shows a summary of options.

-v, --version

Shows the version of wApua.

-d n, --debug=n

Sets the level of debug output to n.

Configuration

The system-wide default configuration can be changed in wApua::Config

Per-user configuration can be done by creating a .wApuarc file on Linux and other UNIX derivatives or clones or a wApua.ini file on Windows and MacOS 9 in your home directory.

See the example configuration wApua.rc which comes with wApua.

Known bugs

Under some not yet exactly known circumstances, fetching a document from the internal cache takes very long.

Todo

Supporting WML forms
Global configuration file

Thanks

Thanks to Jindra Vavruska <[email protected]> for many bug reports and suggestions.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 4.0–5.0
  2. 6.0–7
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10
  6. 11
  7. 12–13

Author

wApua was written by Axel Beckert <[email protected]>

From wapua 0.06.4-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.