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A Webserver on Your Cellphone?

Posted by Cliff on from the what-would-you-do-with-it dept.

Mad_Rain asks: "I saw over on Make Magazine an article about using your cell phone on the Internet, except instead of browsing the web from your cell, you can serve webpages from your phone. Of course, it uses Apache, Python and a Nokia S60 series cell phone. I can imagine a couple of creative applications for webservers in strange places, but what else can be done with this?"

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  1. The best way to bankrupt your employer by arivanov · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just run a webserver and post in slashdot. I am sure accounts will be mildly entertained the moment they get the GPRS bill.

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  2. "What else can be done with this?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It can be used to spread viruses toeven more people who think they know how to admin a webserver.

  3. Re:Oh great! by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's not so nice when the phone catches fire in your pocket

    Speak for yourself.

  4. So... by famebait · · Score: 3, Funny

    instead of browsing the web from your cell, you can serve webpages from your phone.

    Was this by any chance in Soviet Russia?

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  5. Serve yourself! by drstock · · Score: 2, Funny

    It could be interesting to use this to serve pages to the phone's own browser, to allow off-line browsing for phones who have no such function.

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