A common way of "handling" users in the HTML world is to assign a "session" to each user. This is sometimes done by assigning a unique identifier to each user through Cookies. Since the WAP environment has very limited support for cookies, sessions must be handled differently.

Alex Kriegel provides a Custom Session Object package hosted at the excellent WAPlinks site. The zip file contains a VB Class file and the compiled DLL. Documentation is also included. The archive is available for download at http://www.waplinks.com/customsessionobject.zip.

Another way of doing it is by the use of PHPlib for the very popular PHP script language. Tarique (tarique@nagpur.dot.net.in) has provided the following excellent example on how to use PHPlib for authenticating and handling WAP users. Documentation is provided, and the code is commented.