Sep 25

Lightweight httpd server for Mobile phones

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On further exploration, several light weight open sourced web servers seem to make their presence in the Internet. Some of them are found here. Many of them work on multiple platforms. Not many have been compiled for any mobile phones.

I am still debating whether we need to have a separate web server and modules compiled PHP, python or perl. Can we not use a scripting language such as Python and build a web server on this? This seemed a viable option as there is no need to write elobarate CGI for Python and Python ports are available for Windos Mobile and S60.

Whatever be the case, I am planning to take one at a time and planning to port it to Windows Mobile and S60 platforms. I will consider non-Java and open sourced web servers only.

Please watch this space for regular updates.

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Sep 24

Lighttpd web server for mobile phones

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Is there a lighttpd port available for windows mobile? Since lighttpd is light weight and lightning speed http server, I am interested in finding out if there is port available. I have come across several binaries and not a source code for this version. I will check this out for a couple of days. If not available, this will be the first project for Mobile OSS.

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Sep 23

Windows Mobile webserver

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We have been accessing Internet through mobile phones for the past several years. Mobile phones have always been used as a client and used to pull information. Considering many power-packed phones, such as Nokia N-Series or Microsoft Windows mobile phones, it is quite possible that many of these high-end phones, are capable of serving as mobile web servers. Web servers of the early 1990s had configurations comparable to that of the current high-end mobile phones. Nokia has been toying with this idea and had released a web server for Symbian S60.Is it possible to convert a Windows mobile into a web server with minimal effort? Here is the first experimentAn Imate-KJam running the Windows mobile became my target. I do not want to spend too much time in writing a web server. I want to “put together” a few open source pieces to build a web server. And here is what I did.

  1. Downloaded PythinCE onto my mobile
  2. Downloaded a simple webserver code written in python.
  3. Connected my mobile to my wireless hotspot to get an IP address
  4. Wrote a few html files to test the web server
  5. Connected to my mobile from a desktop client
  6. Voila, my mobile became a webserver and started serving basic html pages

Please watch this page for more updates. I have created a cabinet file (.CAB) that includes PythonCE and webserver and some sample html files. I will post the CAB soon.

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Based on a work at pythonce.sourceforge.net and by John Berg .

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