Here's a basic concept for using mobile proxies. The idea is that college students would install an android or iphone app that would phone home and tell a server that a phone is now available to take requests. The app would travel over HTTP (to prevent any sort of port blocks) and ask the server for any new papers to download. The app would perform the download, then POST or PUT the file back to the server along with the metadata. The metadata could be served back to the server by POSTing the HTML, actually. Components: 1) android app 2) iphone app 3) a common protocol, probably JSON over HTTP 4) a central server to send requests 5) some way to access this server to manage a fleet or get back pdfs. Any thoughts on how to make this work out? I can write the android and iphone versions for this, and the server, but it would be better if there were others involved. Additionally, I have been having trouble finding an appropriate proxy to run on android that isn't limited to HTTP requests.. surely there's some sort of botnet-provided proxy on android already ? Transproxy isn't it, and proxydroid is really just for redirecting outgoing requests, not handling incoming requests from other machines. - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "science-liberation-front" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to science-liberation-front+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE