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Originally Posted by hansel
I'm not very interested in surfing the net with my Iliad (at the moment), more in downloading books with a simple gui. What I like about the Iliad is that I will not need a PC for that once there is some adequate software...
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A standalone app will surely do the trick, but while "surfing the net" the interface IS the html code fetched for the various web pages, like mobileread.com and when in the Mobi ebook forum, the user just has to click the link to the .prc/.mobi attachment BUT then the iLiad needs to know what to do with that mime-type. That's where the server side code, that is resident on the iLiad, could be helpful.
So, in the end, a really "simple" gui may just be any web page that has links to (your) mobipocket ebooks...
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I'm pretty sure that the networking stuff on the Iliad works fine (as long as you don't access the cf while doing wifi). Wget is working fine, and can be used in scripts. Curl is o.k. too. The Lua binding for libcurl is included in my lua-iliad package. I did a small demo for Adam B. that downloads a file while showing progress.
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I'll have to try that demo so thanks for the link! I did use wget to fetch Project Gutenberg .mobi ebooks before in a script, so I know it does work quite well.
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It's easy to run a small webserver written in Lua on the Iliad. I did an experiment a while back (my first Lua for Iliad experiment) that could do 'server side scripting'. It's only a few hundred lines of code. It's not really nice code, but it worked
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Oh, more code to play with. Thanks again!!!
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For now I'll focus on downloading books... soooo much to play, soooo little time 
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and forget about any actual
reading time...
