Turn your S60 smartphone into a web server
Smartphones can do a lot of things - but how many of you honestly thought it could ever run Apache web server?! (the web’s most used web server) Well the Nokia Research Center is making that happen…
For quite some time it has been possible to access the Internet using mobile phones, although the role of the phone has strictly been that of a client. Considering that the modern phones have processing power and memory on par with and even exceeding that of webservers when the web was young, there really is no reason anymore why webservers could not reside on mobile phones and why people could not create and maintain their own personal mobile websites.
…think of the possibilities. For one, instead of you sending photos and other content to your friends, they could just connect to your smartphone and grab it themselves. What other cool new things could we see if smartphones were running web servers?
wouldn’t that be dangerous in the “wrong hands”?
Ciao,
I think it would open the doors to a new range of location base services. Currently those services realy on a web server which is static, in this case it would be mobile. Hopefully we will be able to pay with it soon!!
Alessandro
The demos running currently also take use of Python for S60, which is pretty amazing too. Python provides easy access to quite powerful platform services. Hope we will see it available for all soon!
Amazing stuff, this will open up a whole new world of play and options. The future is mobile.
Until there’s a version released or available somewhere, this sounds pretty much like vapourware.
Untill Apache for S60 is being released you can try VS-http server which is already pretty old by now…
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