A Webserver on Your Cellphone? 61
Mad_Rain asks: "I saw over on Make Magazine an article about using your cell phone on the Internet, except instead of browsing the web from your cell, you can serve webpages from your phone. Of course, it uses Apache, Python and a Nokia S60 series cell phone. I can imagine a couple of creative applications for webservers in strange places, but what else can be done with this?"
The best way to bankrupt your employer (Score:5, Funny)
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"What else can be done with this?" (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:"What else can be done with this?" (Score:1, Troll)
Basically nothing, if you're a Verizon customer. FUCK VERIZON!
Well... (Score:1)
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"What else can be done with this?" (Score:3, Funny)
Real-time reporting (Score:3, Insightful)
With a phone like this, you could report on any event, anywhere (even if it meant just serving pictures and audio, since text input on phones is so bad).
Re:Real-time reporting (Score:1)
Or, since internet enabled phones are not exactly uncommon these days, maybe tether the phone to the laptop/PDA and upload the story that way?
I think being on the internet going 80mph down a highway (in the passenger seat, not driving!) is pretty darn cool. I'd imagine this technology could be applied sitting in a chair at Macworld.
Have GPS? (Score:5, Interesting)
-Rick
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Maybe better would be a simple website with a small (5 letter) text field. Enter the right code, and it would ring.
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-Rick
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Already done in amateur radio (Score:1)
There is a nation/world-wide network of stations that use the internet (and/or HF radio) as a backbone. There is even a webpage that will display a user's location on a map (can't remember the URL offhand). There are even specific frequenci
Two words (Score:5, Interesting)
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Some (cheap...really cheap) digital cameras can do this. Unfortunately, they tend to be about as good at capturing video as they are at capturing still images--IOW, not good at all. The cameras I've tried out in this mode were plagued with low framerates and smeared motion.
Just because you can... (Score:3, Insightful)
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I think it just gives the user more freedom to do what he wants with it. Instead of having a company tell him he must use a special tool to remove broken lightbulbs, he can just go get a potato because nothing is standing in his way. The same goes for having a webserver on a cell phone, even if it isn't neccessary, at least its an option.
Personally, I can't see a reason to host information on a phone, but I'm sure there's some fun uses, primarily tying it into VOIP, possibly using your home PC to make wi
Oh great! (Score:1)
Re:Oh great! (Score:5, Funny)
Speak for yourself.
remote web cam server (Score:1)
In other news... (Score:4, Informative)
If you really really want to it is also possible to beat screws into wood with a hammer, or alternatively with a banana frozen in liquid nitrogen.
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So... (Score:4, Funny)
Was this by any chance in Soviet Russia?
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"In Soviet Russia, cell phone serves YOU!"
Just saying it gives me tingles!
I see it now... (Score:2)
Honey, I tried many times, by my cellphone was slashdotted.
Serve yourself! (Score:2, Funny)
This story reminds me... (Score:2)
Seriously, come on... who really needs a web server on their phone? Great! New holes for cell phone virus writers to exploit!
Is it just me... (Score:1)
Hello, sorry I can't take your call right now... (Score:2)
A few possibilities... (Score:1, Interesting)
You could have some kind of massive spiderry bittorrent network that utilised the various communication methods available to the phone as well as IP to share files, ultimately resulting in a higher number of peers and or seeds. You could use a mobile phone\webserver combo for some kind of distributed CTI application.
I guess the major limiting factor would be the features of the phone itself; A gps enabled phone could use it's webserver as a HTTP b
What about for contact management? (Score:1)
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You can pretty much do whatever you want with these phones. Nokia has released a free dev kit based on gcc. The API docs are freely available. There is even a (semi limited) emulator for testing apps on your desktop. You can remotely install your apps via bluetooth to test them, and supposedly you can remote debug via gdb (I never got that to work). The only real limitations are the semi slow CPU and Nokia's
Out pacing the average citizen's ability (Score:2, Interesting)
If you store alot of business phone numbers along with their personal info like e-mail, home numbers, etc, could this be hacked off the phone through the server? The abuse issues could be endless via users that have not one single clue about admining a web server.
Our technology seems to be out pacing the average citizen's ability to control it. Which is a para
Actually, python is ALL you need (Score:2)
Works fine on my Zaurus.
Cheap Security (Score:1)
I have spotted phising sites using this (Score:1, Interesting)
Fun, but with severe limitations (Score:2)
I found out about this the hard way when investigating in a similar subject. The only way to solve it would be to have your own APN (Access Poin
I'm NATed (Score:2)
Given the current state of things, there's not much point getting any more complicated than uploading phonecam photos to Flickr while you're out and about. (As it is, that costs a damn fortune.)