{"id":629,"date":"2007-09-26T08:11:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T12:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=629"},"modified":"2007-09-26T08:16:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T12:16:45","slug":"stupid-iphone-tricks-the-cell-phone-web-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Stupid iPhone tricks: the cell phone web server"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Apache<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s a cottage industry of modifications and “native apps” for the iPhone, most of which involve jailbreaking the phone<\/a> to remove various software restrictions that Apple has put in place. Indeed, a cell phone that essentially runs UNIX underneath the sweet candy interface can do some surprisingly useful things… and potetially some pretty stupid ones too. <\/p>\n

Like, running a web server.<\/p>\n

Apparently, the geeks that have spent countless hours obsessing over the innards of the iPhone had compiled Apache, Python and Vim, among other open source apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And all I can ask is, uhm, why?<\/p>\n

I mean, custom ringtones is a nice thing to have. So are many of the other apps that have been created. And having a UNIX shell on your cellphone is kinda neat. But why, oh why, does someone REALLY want to run a web server from their iPhone?! I personally like to USE my phone, thanks very much, and it would be damned annoying if I couldn’t make calls or had to deal with slow response times because someone was busy downloading content<\/em>. This is generally why people have dedicated servers that just<\/em> serve web pages. In fact, for just a little more than the price of an iPhone, you COULD get a really good web server, that doesn’t require hacking or jailbreaking to get to work. And it looks damn cool, too.<\/a><\/p>\n

But, I guess if you truly have no social life, the iPhone isn’t much use for anything else then, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a cottage industry of modifications and “native apps” for the iPhone, most of which involve jailbreaking the phone to remove various software restrictions that Apple has put in place. Indeed, a cell phone that essentially runs UNIX underneath the sweet candy interface can do some surprisingly useful things… and potetially some pretty stupid ones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}