sitting here in my hotel room, cut off from a way to download podcasts, it occurs to me that some cunning combination of:
- wget
- a scripting language
- apache or file://

Could allow you to specify a URL or rss feed, which you would download the mp3 attachments from, and construct a HTML file linking to them locally.

You'd then have offline cached access to podcasts, downloaded directly to the phone.

Does this sound possible? If the iPhone browser allows file:// urls, the whole thing could just be a single perl script.

This may be fairly simple.

Go here for some useful linkage:

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/17/play-...-command-line/

Quick Tip: When I was playing around with this, I found it much easier to use tinyurl.com to shorten the links I was typing into the phone.