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	qwazix	2013-05-15 , 20:12
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My pc serves as my music player and is hooked up to a competent pair of speakers. Most of the times I want to listen to a song though I'm not near the computer, but I have my phone in my hand. I wanted to be able to take advantage of the big speakers instead of listening to the tinny sound of the phone speakers, without having to move an inch.

As I mostly use YouTube and such to listen to individual songs, I wanted to be able to redirect the current url to firefox on my desktop.

The solution I found is to install nanoweb on the desktop (apache works fine too), change it to run as my desktop user, not www-data (you have to edit /etc/nanoweb.conf for that) and have it run the following index.php

PHP Code:


			
<?php

$u = $_GET['url'];

if (isset($u)&&trim($u!="")){

   exec('DISPLAY=:0 firefox "'.$u.'"');

} 

?>

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

<form action=index.php>

   <input name=url autofocus>

   <button>go</button>

</form>

Now when I visit http://192.168.1.XX from my phone, an input box shows up where I can paste a url which opens in a tab in firefox on the pc.

You can also enter the url directly as such

Code:

http://192.168.1.xx/?url=maemo.org

Next step is to install sharetus on my N9 and configure it to be able to share to my little service with a click.

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Last edited by qwazix; 2013-05-15 at 21:00. Reason: Added double quotes around firefox parameter so that it handles url with spaces

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