Mobiles to Host blogs : Webserver in your pocket

Tommi from S60 blogs received a mail from Nokia Web Server team stating :

Today we have finally reach point release of Mobile Web Server beta 1.0 http://mymobilesite.net

Mobile Web Server will be (soon) launched as internet launch though, as example, of link distribution Nokia Beta Labs, Forum Nokia and hopefully wide variety of blog entries.

Architecture:

According to nokia wiki

Mobile Web Server, also known as Raccoon, consists of a port of the Apache web server to the S60 smartphone platform, and a connectivity solution that provides a mobile phone with a global URL and with HTTP access to it. That is, you can now host a globally accessible website on your mobile phone

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Darla Mack and Rafe from allaboutsymbian are one among the people involved in the beta testing of this application. You can go through there website for more information on web servers.

According to Darla mack , Nokia Webserver application is capable to allow users to :

• Post blog entries for web visitors to view and leave comments.
• Share calendar entries from your device to web viewers.
• Send SMS messages from the web to the MWS user.
• Sign MWS users guestbook.
• View images on the web from the gallery of the MWS user’s device.
• View phone log of missed calls.
• Look up contacts phone numbers.

Quoting Rafe :

Normal Web servers are on an always-on consistent connection (in technical terms it has an unchanging ’static’ IP address), this is not true of a mobile device (like your PC it is normally a client device). The gateway component is therefore necessary because it provides a consistent way to access the server - remember that a mobile device has limited power and limited connectivity and thus may not always be available or connected in the same way.

I totally agree with Tommi that thinking about the stuff that the Mobile Web Server enables, we should focus on the benefits of mobile, not on the limitations.

The software is under the Apache 2 license and can be downloaded from SourceForge.
You must read the beta testing done by rafe and darla mack and the information available at nokia wiki .

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