So since someone now has Python on the Kindle, I had a shot at getting some of my Python ebook utils to work natively. It appears that they quite nicely do. However, since I haven't found a decent terminal emulator that works on Paperwhite and the options for user interface on the device itself are otherwise quite limited, I thought to fiddle an HTTPD and run through the browser on the device in order to be able to run things via CGI. HTTPD runs fine, and using elinks over SSH works perfectly. However, it appears that the Paperwhite experimental browser won't connect to localhost--it gives me the "unsupported file type for download" dialog. (I connected to the same HTTPD setup on another machine in my local network and it worked fine, so I know it's not a problem on that end.) Does anyone know how to get around this, or in general much about the Paperwhite browser? Google is not being particularly helpful.
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