Developing for iPad with HTML

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Eteresoft has a good point. I should not have posted this comment as a question. It is really better posted as a non-question discussion topic.
The new DHCP routers are triggered for a security mode when a website is visited from international networks or when http requests are sent within http requests. While this may possibly have been the case in the past, the numbers of these incidents are increasing as more people are switching form landline telephone and cable subscriptions to the internet for communication and entertainment.
The trouble is that many people do not know how to configure the routers in order to continue serving web pages. We all know Eteresofts view, he's already made it clear, that his view is that nobody should serve web pages.
My view is that serving web pages from home is a very important capability to individuals and small businesses. By serving web pages from your own computer, you can interact with customers and manage files in a way that is not possible through remote web server services.
Additionally, serving from one's own computer allows the capability of communicating with one's iPads, etc, through one's iMac...from anywhere on the internet!
While this is not a new idea, it is one that many people have not considered. When used in conjunction with iOS applications, html/javascript programming for home-based web servers offers a lot of new potential for future development.

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Those are certainly sound considerations when selecting different solutions to different needs. As you can tell, I'm no expert on web servers (I didn't even adjust the type and quality of the image file).
What is more important to me is the attitude that people 'don't need' certain technologies because they aren't using them, or worse, decreasing access and increasing (regulatory or entry) prices on new technology simply because people haven't figured out how to use them, yet.
I get that feeling when customer service representatives tell me "You can't". I get that feeling when companies design choices around what customers 'should' do and which services they 'should use'. Forward planning works when people are seen as the source of innovative uses, rather than the recipients of thoroughly per-planned social designs.
I have no idea what innovations might eventually come out of home web servers, but I do know what would eventually come of eliminating them. We should be looking at computers as the new telephone, at a very minimum, and with AT&T moving more rapidly into DHCP default routers, this is the time to make certain that we don't get stuck with a 'phone' into which we cannot speak...not by our current understanding of the technology, but by our allowance for the power of possibility.
As far as the machine IP assignment, I understand the assignment to my iMac was originally set at manufacture, but that pirated or knock off machines may have duplicate machine IPs.