[maemo-developers] web based local application GUIs

[From: Allan Doyle]

On Nov 27, 2007, at 16:31 , <monteslu at cox.net> wrote:

>
> ---- Jesse Guardiani <jesse at guardiani.us> wrote:
>> On 11/27/07, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue 27 Nov 2007 16:27, "Jesse Guardiani" <jesse at guardiani.us>  
>>> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 11/27/07, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at iki.fi> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    On Mon 26 Nov 2007 22:16, Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa at nokia.com>
>>> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> What's wrong with something that runs on-demand?
>>>>
>>>>    A separate gui client which starts the server and browser on
>>> demand?...but
>>>>    LISCDNWiOM!! ;)
>>>>
>>>> lol. what? :)
>>>
>>> localhost inet sockets do not work in offline mode.
>>>
>>> Which, btw, is pretty weird (IMHO). I have not seen this behaviour  
>>> in any
>>> other unix system; results of "ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1" has  
>>> preserved over
>>> changes in any other interfaces (static and dynamic).
>>>
>>> Why can not the loopback interface be up all the time ??
>>
>>
>>
>> Yeah, well, I guess that rules out web interfaces for userland  
>> applications,
>> eh? shame...
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jesse Guardiani
>> Software Developer / Sys Admin
>> jesse at guardiani.us
>
>
> Sounds more like a bug that needs fixing rather than something to  
> rule out.
>
> Luis
>

This has been an issue for a long time:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339
http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2007-May/010076.html

I guess this thread is doomed to recur every 6 months or so...

	Allan
>

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