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Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server
miller60 writes "A Japanese company called Freebit has released ServersMan, an app that turns the iPhone into a web server. It debuted in Japan in February, has now been launched in the US, and is being touted as a 'Personal Data Center.' Freebit also has a video with additional information on server-enabling your iPhone. 'Once the app is installed, PCs on the internet can access the iPhone to upload or download files through a browser or they can use the webDAV protocol. If the PC and the iPhone are on the same network, the PC can connect directly. If they are on separate networks, then FreeBit's VPN software will engage the connection.'"
Banned from the app store in 3, 2, 1...
So...how is this any different than installing Apache through Cydia (aside from the fact that it requires being jailbroken).
...apple/AT&T decides that running web servers from iPhones is taking up too much of the network's bandwidth and they flip the kill switch on this app though? I guess as long as people are just using it for personal file storage...
I love to hear things like this. The more of these apps out there the better. Gives me more credability when my wife looks at my Iphone and asks who's Cherry and why is she sending you neked pics. I can just blame it on the script kiddies.
"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most." ~Ozzy Osborne
So what happens when you've got several thousand people trying to get on your phone's server?
I didn't think the house band in Hell would play this badly.
O snap! iPhone Web Server! Woot! 25% uptime! seriously though, the iphone is notorious for shitty battery life, who would put a web server on there?
Or did someone just slashdot your iPhone?
Bring on the websites running on iPhones so when I look out my window here in Portland I can start watching hipsters reaching into their pockets looking at their iPhones than combusting in flames.
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I've used an app that does this for a while now. It's called Data Case and provides WebDAV and FTP access. There's a bunch of other ones on the app store as well. I fail to see how this is news.
-- "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings" -Optimus Prime
I fail to see how is this news and how is this interesting.
Any jailbroken iPhone has been able to do this ages ago, in fact I was doing some AJAX experiments on the iPhone using vim (which was the only decent editor the iPhone had as I had copy/paste and search/replace) when I was bored.
Btw, I did not buy an iPhone, it was given to me and the truth it's I dislike it, if only it were more open...
who cares. show me a web server that doubles as a IPhone however and you've got my attention!
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I have friends who been encouraging me to get into iPhone apps to make a million dollars. That would've make sense if I was into developing for the iPhone before there was an apps store. Now, a gazillion apps later, the market is getting saturated with useless apps. I got better things to do than put a web server on an iPhone.
It's called "Air Sharing", and its new big brother, "Air Sharing Pro".
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=312686749&mt=8
Highly recommended; well worth the $5.
Been there, done that, didn't get a T-shirt.
Automobile Oil Temperature Monitor (includes supply of flexible, heat-resistant oil-tight enclosures)
App for monitoring money under matress (includes jumbo external battery pack)
Tire pressure monitoring and reporting app (you'll need at least 4 iPhones + contracts; includes generous supply of foam rubber padding; includes plug-in pressure transducer)
In a previous slashdot article http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/27/144256 Well maybe theres one guy that likes it
There are lots of web servers for the iPhone. Lots of audio recording applications use a web server to allow you to transfer recordings off the iPhone. I'd suspect there are other categories of applications that also provide a web server.
Not sure you'd want to us the iPhone as a general purpose web server though. That seems dumb.
While people arguing if it will be banned today or tomorrow, Nokia offers such web server for Symbian phones for years now with features making sense.
http://mymobilesite.net/screenshots/
It is Apache/Phyton and several other technologies combined. In fact, it is also a great multi platform phone remote same time for local usage. They solved the NAT/Web robots problem very interesting way too, a real server routes and filters the calls to the phone subdomain so Google doesn't come to your phone as a robot.
The features of it (check screenshots) makes sense, it is not something like 'my toaster runs web server'.
It's been done before and it's $0.
My mobile webserver
My mobile site
I'm sorry if I haven't offended anyone
If you are completely unconcerned with security of the data on your iPhone.
Just because it can be done does not mean it should be done.
Dang, and we'd finally gotten companies to isolate web servers from sensitive data systems and now this stupid idea.
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I have an iPhone. I also have an OpenBSD firewall, a Debian FTP/NFS/SMB server, a LAMP server running on a toaster, a Hackintosh, and a spare system with Windows 7 on it. I guess now I'll have to get a social life or something. This not being a geek thing is going to screw up my schedule.
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Apple today announced a revolutionary new upgrade for the IpHoNe. For years, people have only used phones for accessing the Internet, listening to music, taking photographs and playing games. Now Apple bring a new development to the market: the ability to communicate via voice with someone who is not even in the same room, as if by magic.
The initial version will only allow communication with other Iphone users, though rumours suggest users can get around this limitation by jail-breaking the phone, in line with Apple's "Works, Just" tradition.
Some have pointed out that a few phones have already allowed such a feature, but Apple fans have dismissed this. "Other phones may have done this before, but how many people used it?" commented such fan. "Apple were the first to integrate it properly. Thanks to this innovation, I no longer have to lug my landline around with me as well as my Iphone."
Indeed. VoIP by Apple.
Why do you think they are reworking the iPod touch?
Apple has the way to relay from one market to another like noone else.
While all others still are working to duplicate iTune store they already switched to micro-application sales (iApps); similarly, they are preparing for a world where internet connections via GSM phones (call it 3G or what) will be more complex than via Wifi.
You can bet they'll be running their supersimple, proprietary VoIP solution for months when the others just begin to understand.
And at the beginning people will just tell, well, what you just told...
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