did i say wap was good? well it was until i tried to write my own site. the xml format of wml is simple to suss out. what’s not so easy is to figure out how the hell to get the site to work. my web server is properly configured, i didn’t do it so it’s probably been done properly. but when i try to access the site from my wap phone it tells me that there’s no reply. it seems like something odd is up with orange’s wap gateway though. that ‘no reply’ request leaves a perfectly valid request in my web server’s access log from the host future-is.orange.co.uk. the mime type of the page is correctly set to text/vnd.wap.wml. therefore everything looks ok from the server end. so what’s going on? there was a reply, so why doesn’t my phone get the page? early adopter gremlins in the system, something i’ve done wrong or orange arsing things up to make you stick to their nice proprietary portal pages? despite knowing it’s probably one of the first two options i can’t help wondering about the third.