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Originally Posted by hansel
PS: a.f.a.i.k. the Iliad already can surf the internet (sort of) with minimo.
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I had tried that but it was difficult getting started accessing the internet (probably was caused by using my 8GB CF card with wifi).
When I worked on impserve (just a local proxy server written in python by MR member ashkulz), I collected some convenient links into an internet "launch" sheet called index.html (see index-nrapallo.zip attachment). I tried accessing these links, but something is missing. The eBookwise devices had GREAT internal server/HTML support when working with HTTP GET and POST. The impserve python script ran on the user's local computer and served content to the device based on the mimetype of the links tapped in the hardware reader. Then impserve would "react" and fetch the web content, filter it, fix it for incompatibilities with the hardware devices' weaknesses and then "pass on the content" for the devices' internal mechanism to take over, be it downloading an ebook to the device or simply displaying the webpage previously fetched and fixed.
I'm sure the same approach could be used with the iLiad HOWEVER, there is no internal (server) support to accept a .prc/.mobi file for storage (or even perhaps a .pdf ebook) AFAIK. What we need is an internal server that can launch wired / wireless access and wait for files and/or webpages being served to it from the user's home computer that is running a proxy server like impserve. This new impserve (call it iliadserve or just ladserve?) could even be used to preprocess .epub locally and then send the resulting (exploded) files to the iLiad's internal webbrowser just like MR member mikelv has done with his Firefox add-on called
EPUBReader.
BTW, another MR member Ret had previous to me used an alpha stage java proxy server/librarian that used a "sample.html" launch page to start surfing the internet by entering a keyword in an input box and having google retrieve it's links (attached retlibrarian.zip below). I tried it on the iLiad but there is no echoing of characters typed in the search box and it actually just retrieves the Google web search homepage where I have to type the search word again, this time getting the desired results. It would be nice to have the characters "echo" and use this link on an iLiad .html start page.
And prior to that I found C sourced code for software that was the basis of the inspirations for impserve and "surf the internet" on my LCD reader called
LinReb. We (I) owe it all to this program for paving the way (see attachment below as well).
So, I think all the pieces are conceptually quite attainable, but nothing on the iLiad has been written to pull it all together. Above I have referenced a python script, html coding, java code and C source code. What an assortment of programming languages; all that is missing is the glue that combines them, ...., what? .... , did I hear you say Lua????
By the way, is there any better "internal" .html support that can replace (via an installed program) the use of minimo for surfing the internet ON the iLiad?