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TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview - IBM Redbooks

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User Agent Profile Manager<br />

Used mainly to communicate the client’s device<br />

capabilities <strong>and</strong> personal preferences to the server<br />

applications.<br />

Caching proxy Caching frequently accessed resources, a caching proxy<br />

can improve network utilization.<br />

The use of proxy technology facilitates the access to many different Internet<br />

applications <strong>and</strong> services <strong>and</strong> Web developers are able to facilitate content<br />

compatible with a large number of mobile devices.<br />

WAP network elements<br />

WAP clients can communicate with application servers directly or through<br />

proxies. WAP clients support the proxy selection mechanism that allows them to<br />

use the most appropriate proxy for a given service or to connect directly to that<br />

service as necessary. If proxies are used, they translate between WAP <strong>and</strong> Web<br />

protocols (HTTP, <strong>TCP</strong>), thereby allowing the WAP client to submit requests to<br />

the origin server.<br />

To optimize the communication between device <strong>and</strong> application server, proxies<br />

can be located in order to provide feature enhancements coupled to the wireless<br />

network (for example, telephony, location <strong>and</strong> provisioning) or proxies can be<br />

located in a secure network to provide a secure channel between wireless device<br />

<strong>and</strong> the secure network.<br />

The supporting servers provide support for additional functions such as User<br />

Agent Profile (UAProf, see 18.8, “User Agent Profile (UAProf)” on page 671),<br />

provisioning, PKI, <strong>and</strong> so on.<br />

660 <strong>TCP</strong>/<strong>IP</strong> <strong>Tutorial</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technical</strong> <strong>Overview</strong>

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