(keitai-l) Re: 3G mobile sites

From: Nick May <nick_at_kyushu.com>
Date: 06/26/02
Message-id: <fc.000f7610000716013b9aca0000f5bdc4.71604@kyushunet.com>
keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
> From my understanding mobile fones connect to sites on the internet. 
>Which means that they do not need to be on some protect server that is
>not 
>accessible to anyone else.  If the content is on the internet, then I 
>assume it can be accessed via a normal browser or at least via telnet.

 I don't know about KDDI 3G, but the assumptions above are not legitimate.

Even given only the resources available to an ordinary site, one can:

1) browser sniff and serve only to certain browsers (phones).

2) I.P. address sniff and only serve to requests from a certain source
address (KDDI gateway).

That is before one gets into all the stuff one could do if one controls
the network.

This is not to say that what you want is not possible, just that your
assumptions are false.

Nick
Received on Wed Jun 26 10:32:57 2002