Re: [SLUG] Neat project

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 11:38:09 EDT


On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 08:29, wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
> Folks, the company that I work for produces software for the wireless
> work environment, we have traditionally been utility (as in electric,
> gas, water, etc) oriented, out in the field our products us a "MDT"
> which is now days a laptop hardened or other wise for the field tech
> to use. We have moved to a web based product, but when the field tech
> is out of RF coverage the web brower talks to a internal web server on
> the MDT so the tech can continue to do work.
>
> We want to move this type of operation to a PDA, but so far they have
> been looking at wince err WinCE, it does not have a web server that will
> run on a PDA.
>
> Here is the question, I have seen many very small web servers for different
> LINUX functions does anyone know if a very small web server has been ported
> to LINUX for the PDA's, if so that would be a very strong VERY STRONG, yea
> verily VERY VERY STRONG reason for my company to move the field side to
> LINUX
> in order to be able to allow a PDA to continue to process field orders
> even though the tech is out of RF coverage somewhere.
>
> Any ideas, pretty please??
>

thttpd and Apache have both been running fine on the Linux-on-iPAQ
project: http://www.handhelds.org/

You can even plug one of the supported wireless cards into the iPAQ with
a PCMCIA sleeve, have Linux use it as eth0, and run your webserver from
it and end up with a roaming, handheld webserver.

Presumably getting either thttpd or Apache running on the Sharp Zaurus
wouldn't be that big a deal either as it's effectively the same
environment.

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