WinCE 4.2 Webserver?

[Tom Libby]

I was just told that a WinCE 4.2 device we have has a Web server running on
it. Is it possible to create a site on the device that will allow uploading
and downloading files from and to the device using VS.Net 2003 and C#?

Thanks
Tom

 

[Thomas Hall]

WinCE 4.2 does not support an http server out-of-the-box. However,
third parties have developed solutions that enable web server hosting
on WinCE. I have a mobile application that uses this type of product
so that I can expose web services hosted on the device.

Regards,
Thomas Hall

 

[Thomas Hall]

The simple answer is yes. But...

WinCE 4.2 does not support an http server out-of-the-box. However,
third parties have developed solutions that enable web server hosting
on WinCE. I have a mobile application that uses this type of product
so that I can expose web services hosted on the device. I've
implemented these web services to enable 'push messaging' of datasets
to the device.

Regards,
Thomas Hall

 

[Tom Libby]

Thanks again Thomas. So is it possible to put a web service on this using
C#. All I need to do is transfer files to and from the device over the
network. Same scenario as in my post that you responded to earlier.

Thanks
Tom

 

[Tom Libby]

Apparently the Symbol MC3000 has a web server I will look into more later
but if I can create a WS and put it on the device then I should be able to
create a Desktop app that transfers files.

Thanks
Tom

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

In fact, it does. Device OEMs can include the Web server when they build
the OS, or not, so it's not in every device, but it is available to them.
The server that 4.2 comes with doesn't support being a Web services
server...

Paul T.

 

[Thomas Hall]

That's right. In fact, the Athena product from Odyssey Software that I
mentioned in the other post is built on the same technology that I use
in my production application. My production app provides web
service-based messaging services in both WLAN and WWAN environments
(they're both IP-based so no surprise there). The underlying
technology is Odyssey Software's ViaXML product. With it, you have
full programmatic control over how you want to handle things.

Regards,
Thomas Hall

 

[Thomas Hall]

My bad, Paul. I was thinking in terms of hosting web services on the
device. Thanks for the clarification.

Thomas Hall

 

[Tom Libby]

Ok sorry now I am lost. It can or cannot run a web service that a desktop
can call. To move files to and from the device.

Thanks
Tom

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

"Web services" and a "Web server" are *not* the same thing. You can have a
Web server that will serve HTML pages, files, etc. without requiring Web
services, which is a separate protocol. For what you're describing, you
just need a Web server. That doesn't mean that you couldn't do the same
thing with a server that also supported Web services, but just for getting
and putting files, you don't need Web services.

Paul T.

 

[Tom Libby]

Ok now I understand thanks allot. I appreciate the help and quick responses.
Now I know what I will be doing this weekend.

Tom

 

[Tom Libby]

Ok so I do I get started developing for this. Could you provide a starting
point.

Thanks Tom

 

[Sergey Bogdanov]

There is no need to develop a Web Server, maybe it would be better to
consider alternative solutions for file transferring?

http://groups.google.com/group/micr....compactframework/msg/7565091fccd244a4?hl=en&

 

[Alex Yakhnin [MVP]]

The httpd server on WinCE.NET doesn't support ASP.NET, but it does support
old style ASP.

 

[Guest]

Not true. CE 4.2 does offer a web server out of the box. The target
platform may not have it, buit it's there, along with telpnet and FTP. It
is an ASP3.0 server, not ASP.NET though.

-Chris