Web server on the phone?

[Dirk Bergstrom]

Basically all of my experience writing UIs is on the web.  I'd like to 
run a webserver on the phone, so I can write dirt-simple UIs that way, 
rather than getting tied up in GTK/e/Qt.

I see that there's a busybox server:

http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily-feed/armv4t/busybox-httpd_1.11.0-r2_armv4t.ipk

One might also consider thttpd:

http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/

Or shttpd:

http://shttpd.sourceforge.net/

I suspect any of them would be OK for serving static files.  However, I 
wonder if CGI would be feasible.  I'm guessing that spawning a shell 
script wouldn't be too hard, but I suspect that spinning up a whole 
python process might be a bit much for the little arm CPU.  Anyone have 
any thoughts on that?

Since I'm quite familiar with Django (http://www.djangoproject.com), I 
thought I might just run the Django development server, which has a 
toy-ish httpd server built in.  That way I'd already have python 
running, so I'd avoid all the fork/exec/load-libraries overhead.

Not really sure where I'm going with this, just throwing out ideas to 
see if anyone says yea or nay.

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Dirk