Apache on Symbian S60
This is great and exiting news!
From LinuxDevices.com:
Nokia has ported the Apache webserver to Symbian, in order to enable mobile phones to serve content on the World Wide Web. Many mobile phones today have more processing power than early Internet servers, suggesting that "there really is no reason anymore why webservers could not reside on mobile phones," according to the company.
The project is named "Racoon" and there is a description at Nokia Research. The project description mentions an interesting aspect of "mobile" webservers:
As a mobile phone contains quite a lot of personal data it is easy to semi-automatically generate a personal home page. And contrary to websites in general, a website on a mobile phone always has its "administrator" nearby and he or she can even participate in the content generation. For instance, we have created a web-application that prompts the phone owner to take a picture, which subsequently is returned as a JPG. That is, on a personal device the website can be interactive.
To overcome problems with regards to firewalls and dynamically assigned IP adresses used on celluar networks, Nokia also provides a gateway server and service.
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