WAPUA(1p)

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version 0.06.4 · 4 versions
, in ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 wApua — the WAP browser bestie 💖

okay so real talk, this is WAPUA(1p) and it's giving iconic little niche tool energy — a whole web browser for WAP WML pages, written by a person who clearly just wanted to read WAP stuff on a big screen. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

wApua — web browser for WAP WML pages. literally that's the whole vibe. 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

like. you run it, optionally you hand it a config file and a debug level and a URL to start on, and it just goes. main character energy fr. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

wApua is a browser for WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) pages, which are written in the Wireless Markup Language (WML). no it's not dead, it's retro. 💅

it supports WML 1.1 and 1.2 — except forms. (yes bestie, we know, the forms thing is in TODO, keep reading 👀)

it's written in Perl, and it uses the Perl/Tk library for its GUI, plus libwww-perl for the network parts. which means — and this is the slay part — it supports all transport protocols that libwww-perl (LWP) supports. so whatever LWP can speak, wApua can speak. periodt. 💜

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help, --usage — shows you a lil summary of the options. very demure, very mindful. 🎀
  • -v, --version — shows the version of wApua. (flexing, respectfully)
  • -d n, --debug=n — sets the level of debug output to n. turn it up if things are acting up 🔥
heads up: the SYNOPSIS also shows -f configfile and a starturl — those are real and you can use them, they just don't get their own bullet down here. iykyk 🫶

🌸 CONFIGURATION 🌸

the system-wide default configuration can be changed in wApua::Config. (yes, that's the module, go look at it, it's right there)

per-user configuration? so easy bestie:

  • on Linux and other UNIX derivatives or clones → make a .wApuarc file
  • on Windows and MacOS 9 → make a wApua.ini file

both go in your home directory. 🏠✨

and there's an example configuration called wApua.rc that ships with wApua — go peek at it, it's basically the blueprint. 📓

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

💀 KNOWN BUGS 💀

under some circumstances that are not yet exactly known, fetching a document from the internal cache takes very long. 😭 so like… it's slow sometimes and nobody knows why. iconic but in a sad way. if you hit it, you hit it.

🌈 TODO 🌈

stuff that is Not Yet:

  • Supporting WML forms
  • Global configuration file

(we see you, forms. one day. 🙈)

Copyright (C) 2000, 2006, 2009 by Axel Beckert <wapua@deuxchevaux.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02111-1301, USA.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. It also came with wApua in the file COPYING.

bestie please actually read the license, it's not a vibe-killer, it's just the rules 🫶

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

wApua was written by Axel Beckert <wapua@deuxchevaux.org> — absolute legend behavior. 👑

🍓 THANKS 🍓

Thanks to Jindra Vavruska <ok1fou@yahoo.com> for many bug reports and suggestions. real ones. 🫶✨

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-09-18, and it lives at WAPUA(1p). go forth and browse some WML. slay. 💖🧚🌈

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