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

[From: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

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.

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