Case study

Foreca S60: reconstructing a legacy weather service

The Foreca S60 weather server reconstructs the legacy HTTP service expected by Foreca Weather 1.4.x on Nokia Symbian phones. A Python bridge translates location and forecast requests to the current Foreca API and other map sources, while a SIS patcher changes the server host in a user's app package. Protocol notes describe the search and weather-package endpoints.

Targets: App · Protocol
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

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Last commit: 2026-10-23
Language: Python
License (GitHub): MIT

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Linux, Python 3.9 or later, a reachable web server, a Foreca Weather API token and a user-provided Foreca SIS. Installing a patched SIS requires a phone that accepts unsigned packages or a way to sign the package.
Limits: The country and city browsing list, update.txt and map legends are unimplemented; HTTPS mode is experimental.
License: MIT license for the project; tools/symdeflate.py is EPL 1.0.

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BibTeX

@misc{symbian-foreca-weather-server-case,
  title = {{Foreca S60: reconstructing a legacy weather service}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Mat-London/symbian-foreca-weather-server}},
  url = {https://github.com/Mat-London/symbian-foreca-weather-server},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/symbian-foreca-weather-server-case/}}
}

Plain text

Foreca S60: reconstructing a legacy weather service. https://github.com/Mat-London/symbian-foreca-weather-server (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/symbian-foreca-weather-server-case/

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README.md GitHub · Mat-London/symbian-foreca-weather-server · Revision 4d3cb53
docs/PROTOCOL.md GitHub · Mat-London/symbian-foreca-weather-server · Revision 4d3cb53