Comments on: Would you run a web server on your phone? http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/06/04/would-you-run-a-web-server-on-your-phone/ From an XML geek, a reader, a writer, a connector, a man of the people (says keep hope alive) Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:18:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sjoerd Visscher http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/06/04/would-you-run-a-web-server-on-your-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Sjoerd Visscher Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:06:29 +0000 http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/06/04/would-you-run-a-web-server-on-your-phone/#comment-108 Would it be possible to have the webserver use no power as long as there are no requests? Also this is useless without some sort of DNS system that converts phone numbers to ip numbers. Would it be possible to have the webserver use no power as long as there are no requests?

Also this is useless without some sort of DNS system that converts phone numbers to ip numbers.

]]> By: Steve Loughran http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/06/04/would-you-run-a-web-server-on-your-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Steve Loughran Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:40:08 +0000 http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/06/04/would-you-run-a-web-server-on-your-phone/#comment-107 Yes, phones are devices, devices have home pages. The ubicomp people did work on this back in '99, 2000, with something turning HTTP requests into SMS calls, with the public permanently available server being the real front end. The phone would send back some state information (cell ID, phone ring profile (outside, meeting, &c). you could also have different responses for known vs unknown callers. Now that 3G makes all phones an IPv6 node, then you can put a real web server in there. To put it differently: if your laptop had an address that remained constant while the box roamed, would you put a public http server up on it? Yes, phones are devices, devices have home pages.

The ubicomp people did work on this back in ’99, 2000, with something turning HTTP requests into SMS calls, with the public permanently available server being the real front end. The phone would send back some state information (cell ID, phone ring profile (outside, meeting, &c). you could also have different responses for known vs unknown callers.

Now that 3G makes all phones an IPv6 node, then you can put a real web server in there.

To put it differently: if your laptop had an address that remained constant while the box roamed, would you put a public http server up on it?

]]> By: Ilya http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/06/04/would-you-run-a-web-server-on-your-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-105 Ilya Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:55:23 +0000 http://dubinko.info/blog/2006/06/04/would-you-run-a-web-server-on-your-phone/#comment-105 Hell, no! Mobiles are clients, why should i run a server application on client side? Hell, no! Mobiles are clients, why should i run a server application on client side?

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