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Wireless Application Protocol
MMS Encapsulation Protocol
Version 05-Jan-2002
Wireless Application Protocol
WAP-209-MMSEncapsulation-20020105-a
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Document History
WAP-209-MMSEncapsulation-20010601-a Approved
WAP-209-MMSEncapsulation-20020105-a Current
WAP-209_102-MMSEncapsulation-20011011-a Approved
WAP-209_103-MMSEncapsulation-20011128-a Approved
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Contents
1. SCOPE...............................................................................................................................................................................................5
2. REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................................................6
2.1. NORMATIVE REFERENCES ......................................................................................................................................................6
2.2. INFORMATIVE REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................................6
3. TERMINOLOGY AND CONVENTIONS ..............................................................................................................................7
3.1. CONVENTIONS ...........................................................................................................................................................................7
3.2. DEFINITIONS ..............................................................................................................................................................................7
3.3. ABBREVIATIONS ........................................................................................................................................................................7
4. INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................................................................9
5. MESSAGE STRUCTURE OVERVIEW................................................................................................................................10
6. MMS PROTOCOL DATA UNITS AND FIELDS ..............................................................................................................11
6.1. SENDING OF MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE.................................................................................................................................11
6.1.1. Send Request.....................................................................................................................................................................11
6.1.2. Send confirmation.............................................................................................................................................................13
6.2. MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE NOTIFICATION............................................................................................................................14
6.3. RETRIEVAL OF MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE...........................................................................................................................16
6.4. DELIVERY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT........................................................................................................................................18
6.5. DELIVERY REPORTING..........................................................................................................................................................18
6.6. READ REPORTING...................................................................................................................................................................19
6.7. ERROR CONSIDERATIONS .....................................................................................................................................................19
6.7.1. Interoperability Considerations with Version Numbering.........................................................................................19
6.7.2. Interoperability between MMS Versions with the Same Major Version Number................................................19
6.7.3. Interoperability between MMS Versions with Different Major Version Numbers...............................................20
7. BINARY ENCODING OF PROTOCOL DATA UNITS...................................................................................................21
7.1. ENCODING RULES ...................................................................................................................................................................21
7.2. HEADER ENCODING................................................................................................................................................................22
7.2.1. Bcc field .............................................................................................................................................................................22
7.2.2. Cc field ...............................................................................................................................................................................22
7.2.3. Content-Location field.....................................................................................................................................................22
7.2.4. Content-Type field............................................................................................................................................................23
7.2.5. Date field............................................................................................................................................................................23
7.2.6. Delivery-Report field .......................................................................................................................................................23
7.2.7. Delivery-Time field..........................................................................................................................................................23
7.2.8. Delta-seconds-value.........................................................................................................................................................23
7.2.9. Encoded-string-value.......................................................................................................................................................23
7.2.10. Expiry field ......................................................................................................................................................................23
7.2.11. From field ........................................................................................................................................................................24
7.2.12. Message-Class field .......................................................................................................................................................24
7.2.13. Message-ID field ............................................................................................................................................................24
7.2.14. Message-Type field........................................................................................................................................................24
7.2.15. Message-Size field .........................................................................................................................................................25
7.2.16. MMS-Version field ........................................................................................................................................................25
7.2.17. Priority field ....................................................................................................................................................................25
7.2.18. Read-Reply field.............................................................................................................................................................25
7.2.19. Report-Allowed field .....................................................................................................................................................26
7.2.20. Response-Status field.....................................................................................................................................................26
7.2.21. Response-Text field .......................................................................................................................................................27
7.2.22. Sender-Visibility field ...................................................................................................................................................27
7.2.23. Status field .......................................................................................................................................................................27
7.2.24. Subject field.....................................................................................................................................................................27
7.2.25. To field .............................................................................................................................................................................27
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7.2.26. Transaction-Id field........................................................................................................................................................27
7.3. ASSIGNED NUMBERS ..............................................................................................................................................................28
8. MMS ADDRESSING MODEL .................................................................................................................................................30
APPENDIX A. STATIC CONFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS (NORMATIVE) .................................................32
APPENDIX B. CHANGE HISTORY (INFORMATIVE) ...............................................................................................39
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1. Scope
The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is a result of continuous work to define an industry-wide specification for
developing applications that operate over wireless communication networks. The scope for the WAP Forum is to define
a set of specifications to be used by service applications. The wireless market is growing very quickly, and reaching
new customers and services. To enable operators and manufacturers to meet the challenges in advanced services,
differentiation and fast/flexible service creation WAP Forum defines a set of protocols in transport, security,
transaction, session and application layers. For additional information on the WAP architecture, please refer to
“Wireless Application Protocol Architecture Specification” [WAPARCH].
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is a system application by which a WAP client is able to provide a messaging
operation with a variety of media types. The service is described in terms of actions taken by the WAP MMS Client
and its service partner, the MMS Proxy -Relay, a device which operates as a WAP Origin Server for this specialised
service.
The service description of the multimedia messaging service can be found in [MMSSERV]. This specification defines
the message encapsulation, i.e., the message structure and encodings for the multimedia messaging service.
