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Webserve from your pocket
APPEALING TO the extremely geeky or just plain busy mobile developers, Goldenpack, an embedded software outfit from China, has launched FineMobileWeb.net, a CMS-management service and webserver application for smartphones.
No, seriously.
FineWS stands for "First Into Next Epoch Web Server". Its software runs only on S60-class Nokia devices and gives you the ability to process PHP-based pages, that is, run PHP-based web servers on smartphones.
CMS management and development are done through custom builds of open source CMSs, like Joomla, Pluck, LotusCMS and so forth. All of these are available from the FineWS website.
You can get the software for free from FineMobileWeb.net and, as you register, the site will provide you with a sort of dynamic DNS system based address from your User ID, in the format 'userid>.finemobileweb.net', which then becomes your web server's Internet address.
Physical limitations aside, we're sure our most esteemed readership will find a gazillion ways to make use of this. We know we've had a couple of sorry ideas, anyway. We do know a DB management application is on the way, dubbed FineDB, but details on that one are even scarcer. This of course is all great, if you can get past your general distrust of all software that's made in China, with no source code available for inspection.
You'll forgive us if we don't think the S60 OS is that big right now, not with the class of OSs coming out for netbooks and MIDs and other smartphones, but you get the gist of this. You can imagine that - with the right development community behind it - you could be doing this from a touch screen N900 Tablet, rather than from a teeny-tiny screen on your S60 smartphone.
Goldenpack is promising an Iphone version sooner rather than later, if Apple lets it get away with one. µ
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Perhaps I do not understand this properly.
Development on a screen the ize of an iPhone or N900 (N600?) is not going to work too well in an era of vi/emacs/pick-your-IDE. So a new paradigm for the UI of a dev enviro will have to appear, no? Something that can fit into a 4 or 5 inch screen, and into sub-640x480 resolution.
Not saying it can't be done, just that it needs to be done to make these devices useful to developers.
Raid my web servers now!!
Too bad the capacity on the phones is too tiny, but perhaps the PB tracker could go mobile? haha
Just imagine what the p2p scene could do with something like this. The wireless signal could be turned on or off at will, and as long as the entire file was around in some form it could be reassembled, even if the original source had gone somewhere else.
You can already run web server on a jailbroken iphone, the only thing new here is dynamically update DNS to your current IP. Sounds new, but it's not that big of a deal.
Pretty sure this will go down as a novelty. I mean why would you run a web server that would drain a lot of your battery, unstable, and slow on your phone when you can just keep your desktop on running a server and set it up so you can update the server from you phone.
Why would I want to run my illegal server from a mobile, hard to trace device that I can throw in the river or smash with a hammer at the first sign of trouble?
Gee. I really can't think of any reason at all...
That is the last thing we need: people with 0wned servers spewing out more pollution across the web, and now on their mobiles too. We'll soon see unlimited data plans, so expect this to become yet another burden on society.
Sounds like a great way to put a Chinese Gov mole on you cellphone. It phones home frequently and when H-hour comes it will start spewing its rubbish doing its part to disable the internetz...
Doesnt Damn Small Linux (50meg distro) have a webserver included??
Take a look at Nokias Mobile Web Server.
And yes, it really is slow, even via wireless lan.