Yes you heard it right, (you shall be a little amazed if you are a newbie,. this web server on mobile concept has been doing rounds for a couple of years) a Web Server(HTTP) on your Mobile Phone. all you need is a good Symbian Smart Phone and some decent memory space on the phone. Now a days the mobile has become the Computer?, hell no that is just a marketing line, there is still so much to become a Computer dear N95!! But you could admit these mobiles that were running out of KB's now have HDD's behind their ass. This is something that is wonderful for the innovative group of geeks that put more and more into your handset! (The Nokia N91 8GB for example).
Well with that much space, it ain't no surprise that the web servers have found a new abode!(not adobe ;)) Nokia has been a fore runner in making this idea a usable consumable feature, they have been backing up developers to innovate based on this idea. Imagine you do not have to take a good picture, and upload it to your Flickr or Photobucket account!! People can now fetch it form your phone, just you need a good data connection!
Yes, it rings the security bells all over your head, but this has to be passed on, there will be security holes, and patches coming and going, but the technology has come in to survive!
VS-HTTPD is one such web server for the Symbian Phones. You can check out the trial version here.
The web server is a small nifty application that sits on your mobile phone, it is simple to implement, and the purpose it to serve Pictures/Images to your viewers. No need to push to your web server anymore, just run this application, and allow your users to view the pictures. To our surprise the VS-HTTPD has a cool feature to generate a web page to serve images, this web page can be customized to your likings, hope this will evolve to a greater level in the coming days ahead.
Features:
- Dynamic generation of image web page, when the path /Photos/ is requested, eg http://
/Photos/ - Ability to define your own image web page template (see readme_1.0.txt)
- Supports the HTTP 'GET' command. All other commands will result in the socket being closed.
- Serve any file located in the Web root and sub directories below that.
- Uses the built in recognizers to determine the content type of the file.
- When you select start from the menu, the application finds the first existing network connection and attaches to that. The IP address and port that the daemon is listening on is shown on the screen.
- Configurable settings include:
- Image path - for dynamic page generation,
- Web Root - for content serving,
- Listening Port - port on which the server listens on
The connectivity solution consists of a gateway that runs on a computer on the Internet and a so called connector that runs on the mobile device. Together with an appropriate DNS configuration they provide a mobile device with a global name (URL) in the operator networks of today.
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