[instaviz-users] iPhone: Graph: InstaViz: Export: Methods

[Glen Low]

Knud

Thanks for your thorough email.

On 26/12/2008, at 4:59 PM, knud van eeden wrote:

> The other way around is a WebDav server running on the iPhone which  
> gets contacted by a WebDav client running on the PC or the Mac.
>
> Easier ways to export the files for the user would probably be to  
> run a WebDav server on the iPhone itself.
>
> You connect then using a WebDev client (=typically a browser like  
> FireFox, Safari or Internet Explorer running on the PC or Mac) to  
> get your files
>
> => With that idea in mind, I first played around a little bit with  
> the currently free Apple applications, which act like WebDav servers  
> running on the iPhone:
>
> 1. 'Files lite'
>
> and
>
> 2. 'Discover'
>
> (see the apple Store)
>
> You run that application on your iPhone, and then type the current  
> IP address of the iPhone + a port in your client to connect to the  
> directory, where you see your files.

I briefly considered writing my own WebDAV server since I've done  
similar work before. However, my concern is that if WiFi is off, does  
the iPhone actually have a reachable IP address? Can you test on your  
iPhone with those apps?
>
> III. Regarding sending attachments e-mail, as far as I know an e- 
> mail is always completely plain text.
>
> When you are sending an attachment (e.g. InstaViz graph files), what  
> happens behind the screen is that your e-mail is splitted in two  
> different parts, e.g. one first part for your plain e-mail message  
> text, followed by a second also plain text part where you insert  
> your attachments (which are first converted to characters all in the  
> range of ASCII 0-127) text.
>

Yup, exactly. I managed to produce beautifully formatted email with  
rich text and embedded images, but Mail seems to only send out the  
plain-text to the Internet.





Cheers, Glen Low


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