Now isn’t this a cool hack? Nokia has successfully ported the Apache httpd web server to their cell phones running the Symbian OS (Symbian is an operating system for mobile devices owned by Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens AG, Panasonic, and Sony Ericsson). This is possible because of Symbian’s POSIX layer that provides some of the UNIX hooks needed.
And the obligatory cool pretty diagram from Nokia’s page:
Historically, web servers are huge clunky machines — loud, noisy, and live in a cold “server rooms”. Imagine now the possibilities: that the website you view, being served up in real-time from a mobile device, say a cell phone .. owned by someone running across the street to grab a bite at Subway for lunch. Imagine the web server also telling you in real time where it currently is, the location of its owner. Granted, it is ripe for abuse by stalkers, but some form of security/access control would be implemented.
Neat stuff.