> Harold Hallikainen-2 wrote:
> >
> > ...When someone plugs in a host
> > computer, the MSD appears on their machine. Click on index.html, and
> > you're at the user interface. Or, it could even include an autostart
> > file to start the  browser. You could, of course, look at files and
> > MAYBE even do GET cgi or MAYBE even POST.
> >
> > Possible? Bad idea?
>
> You can use any old USB fob drive in the following way (assuming Windows):
>
> - include a completely configured small server on the fob,. Use an odd port
> eg 7777.
> - add a starting batch file that starts this server, and launches the PC's
> default browser pointing to this server (eg
> http://127.0.0.1:7777/index.html)
>
> Is this close to your goal?
>

I've been trying to come to grips with this one, too.  I think the catch is
that he wants the server living in an embedded device which operates its own
custom I/O.  Else the "server on a stick" is what I would have suggested.

Maybe a web server on a host computer could be leveraged, if the embedded
app operated from a command line interface and the host sent and received
commands to the device (on behalf of some web scripts).
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