Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server 158
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ScuttleMonkey
from the because-you-can dept.
from the because-you-can dept.
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.'"
Vulnerable. (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdotting Your iPhone? (Score:5, Funny)
Is that a volcano in your pocket? (Score:2, Funny)
Or did someone just slashdot your iPhone?
Slashdotting some hipster to death (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Slashdotting Your iPhone? (Score:5, Funny)
So what happens when you've got several thousand people trying to get on your phone's server?
Hrm, lets take a guess...
A) You find out rather quickly at the end of the month when reviewing page 32,725 if your hardcopy AT&T itemized bill that arrived on a pallet that you went over your "unlimited" data plan.
B) You find out rather quickly that more than ten TCP streams to your phone prohibits voice sending and receiving.
C) AT&T takes about 37 more seconds to realize that they need to block port 80 after this story was slashdotted.
D) All the above.
my iphone into a webserver? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:just because you can (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Slashdotting Your iPhone? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:apache? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slashdotting Your iPhone? (Score:3, Funny)
So what happens when you've got several thousand people trying to get on your phone's server?
Load balancing ... that is if you have a family plan.
Re:.....why? (Score:5, Funny)
It's ZuneLink for geeks. Your eyes meet over a darkened server room, you whip out your iPhone, she pulls out her G1, you whisper seductively "http://192.168.0.1/somewhere_in_time.mp3"...
And suddenly you hear "Never gonna give you up!" You totally rickrolled her!
Re:.....why? (Score:5, Funny)
you had me at colon slash slash
Re:Hah, you wish (Score:3, Funny)
iSpam in your pocket?
You need never worry about what to do for lunch again!
Re:just because you can (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:yawnnnn (Score:5, Funny)
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."