[maemo-developers] N800 Camera Motion Detector w/HTTP server

[From: Kon Wilms]

Text-based should work fine.

Cheers
Kon

On 2/23/07, Michael Wiktowy <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/22/07, Jeremiah Summers <jeremiah.summers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/22/07, Acadia Secure Networks <acadiasecurenets at aol.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 11:25 -0700, Jeremiah Summers wrote:
> > > "....To configure via the web, load Opera and hit the N800
> > > on port 8080"
> > > why is opera necessary? Would it also be possible to connect
> > > to the N800 on port 8080 from another computer using, say
> > >
> > > Firefox?
> > >
> > > Because Opera is on the N800 by default not FireFox! (sorry I normally
> > > just listen but this was to obvious)
> > >
> > > Um, he's asking if he can connect to the server from another computer
> > > (e.g. he wants to know if the server on the N800 is just listening on
> > > localhost or not) It has nothing to do with the browser used.
> > > But that was obvious to me. ;-)
> > Yes that is what I was saying but obviously opera is used because if you
> are
> > configuring it on the n800 that's your only choice right? That would be
> why
> > opera is necessary at least on the N800 and that is why it was stated.
> > There's no other reason why Opera would be mentioned when above he
> mentioned
> > both Firefox and Opera. Maybe the question should then be restated to
> can
> > you access the configuration from something outside the local loopback
> > instead of focusing on using opera or not. If that's the case Opera
> > wouldn't, nor shouldn't matter. So I answered the question about Opera,
> why
> > it was mentioned. In a joking way that would be the reason, would it
> not?
>
> To answer the question ... it is configurable but these things usually
> bind to localhost only by default just to be secure by default:
> See
> http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/ConfigOptionControlLocalhost
>
> ... and you can probably get away with using minimo on the NokIT too.
> I am not sure if the control interface is simple enough to use one of
> the text-based browsers but it might be.
>
> /Mike
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