https://github.com/meteor/cordova-httpd
CorHttpd is a plugin to embed a tiny web server into Cordova
https://github.com/meteor/cordova-httpd
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CorHttpd is a plugin to embed a tiny web server into Cordova
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/meteor/cordova-httpd
- Owner: meteor
- Fork: true (floatinghotpot/cordova-httpd)
- Created: 2014-09-09T06:17:12.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2014-09-25T06:35:48.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-04T02:58:05.227Z (9 months ago)
- Language: Objective-C
- Homepage:
- Size: 484 KB
- Stars: 6
- Watchers: 16
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
## CorHttpd: embeded httpd for cordova ##
Supported platform:
* iOS
* Android
You can browse (locally or remotely) to access files in android/ios phone/pad:
* browse the files in mobile device with a browser in PC.
* copy files from mobile device to PC quickly, just with Wifi.
* use cordova webview to access the assets/www/ content with http protocol.
Why http access is good?
* Use wifi instead of cable, more convenient.
* For security reason, browser does not support local AJAX calls. It's big bottle neck to deploy HTML5 games to Cordova platform.
* The most popular phaser.js game engine, a httpd is always required, as it use AJAX to load resource.
## How to use CorHttpd? ##
Add the plugin to your cordova project:
cordova plugin add https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-httpd.git
Quick start, copy the demo files, and just build to play.
cp -r plugins/com.rjfun.cordova.httpd/test/* www/
## Javascript APIs ##
```javascript
startServer( options, success_callback, error_callback );
stopServer( success_callback, error_callback );
getURL( success_callback, error_callback );
getLocalPath( success_callback, error_callback );
```
Example code: (read the comments)
```javascript
var httpd = null;
function onDeviceReady() {
httpd = ( cordova && cordova.plugins && cordova.plugins.CorHttpd ) ? cordova.plugins.CorHttpd : null;
}
function updateStatus() {
document.getElementById('location').innerHTML = "document.location.href: " + document.location.href;
if( httpd ) {
/* use this function to get status of httpd
* if server is up, it will return http://:port/
* if server is down, it will return empty string ""
*/
httpd.getURL(function(url){
if(url.length > 0) {
document.getElementById('url').innerHTML = "server is up: " + url + "";
} else {
document.getElementById('url').innerHTML = "server is down.";
}
});
// call this function to retrieve the local path of the www root dir
httpd.getLocalPath(function(path){
document.getElementById('localpath').innerHTML = "
localPath: " + path;
});
} else {
alert('CorHttpd plugin not available/ready.');
}
}
function startServer( wwwroot ) {
if ( httpd ) {
// before start, check whether its up or not
httpd.getURL(function(url){
if(url.length > 0) {
document.getElementById('url').innerHTML = "server is up: " + url + "";
} else {
/* wwwroot is the root dir of web server, it can be absolute or relative path
* if a relative path is given, it will be relative to cordova assets/www/ in APK.
* "", by default, it will point to cordova assets/www/, it's good to use 'htdocs' for 'www/htdocs'
* if a absolute path is given, it will access file system.
* "/", set the root dir as the www root, it maybe a security issue, but very powerful to browse all dir
*/
httpd.startServer({
'www_root' : wwwroot,
'port' : 8080
}, function( url ){
// if server is up, it will return the url of http://:port/
// the ip is the active network connection
// if no wifi or no cell, "127.0.0.1" will be returned.
document.getElementById('url').innerHTML = "server is started: " + url + "";
}, function( error ){
document.getElementById('url').innerHTML = 'failed to start server: ' + error;
});
}
});
} else {
alert('CorHttpd plugin not available/ready.');
}
}
function stopServer() {
if ( httpd ) {
// call this API to stop web server
httpd.stopServer(function(){
document.getElementById('url').innerHTML = 'server is stopped.';
},function( error ){
document.getElementById('url').innerHTML = 'failed to stop server' + error;
});
} else {
alert('CorHttpd plugin not available/ready.');
}
}
```