[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Fake IAP connection or how to use local web applications

[From: Paul Klapperich]

maddler's got a work-around that uses the same concept as dummy-iap:
http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php...sing_dummy_iap
<http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php/maddraves/2007/01/30/of_n800_and_the_missing_dummy_iap>

--Paul

On 1/31/07, Collin R. Mulliner <collin at betaversion.net> wrote:
>
> FYI: I added a bug in bugzilla for this problem.
>
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 16:42 -0300, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> > So, we have an internet tablet, with a great browser, but we're unable
> > to use it for local web applications because browser requests and
> > internet connection when accessing "http://127.0.0.1"
> >
> > In 770, every application that used IC connection or was launched
> > using a LD_PRELOAD that mapped "socket" call to use it and ask for an
> > internet connection (I wonder why socket() and not connect()...). By
> > that time I could use the following GConf line to setup a fake IAP
> > connection called "Localhost":
> >
> >    gconftool -s -t string /system/osso/connectivity/IAP/Localhost/type
> DUMMY
> >
> > but this doesn't work with N800.
> >
> > I wonder:
> >  - how to overcome this problem in N800.
> >  - is there a better approach to this problem?
> >  - why do you request IAP connection for localhost?
> >
> > Our use is Canola web-ui, we use a small footprint webserver (written
> > with libsoup, it also takes care of scanning new media) and that allow
> > us to have a multi-platform local/remote user interface to configure
> > our software.
> >
> --
> Collin R. Mulliner <collin at betaversion.net>
> BETAVERSiON Systems [www.betaversion.net]
> info/pgp: finger collin at betaversion.net
> OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything.
>
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