Re: Android, busybox and wget

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 15:16, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 12:57 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 17:36, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You might actually find it easier to have the phone push it up to the
>> Google apps side, using their network API, and have it sync back down
>> to the phone. ;)
>
> as it is, the busybox wget doesn't seem to support cookies, so, the whole
> idea fails at the start, oh well.

Heh.  Seriously, writing the little bit of Java needed sounds good to me. ;)

> anyhow, if I have the script on a remote linux host, what's best way to
> execute that on demand from Android ?

I would shove it behind a CGI that proxied the actions you wanted,
then returned easy to consume data.

Daniel
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