Using the arduino and wifly in offline mode

I have no internet connection here and cannot create one. So I can only have a laptop broadcast an AP and the wifly can connect to it, or I can have the wifly do the same. I’m at a loss as to what I can do with this now. Anyone have any ideas for a project that I can create and run in an offline set up? Ideally I would have the laptop control something on the arduino like send it commands to ramp up power to a pin for a motor, but how can I do this via an offline browser page? The HTTP post does not seem to work from the wifly’s end, but the HTTP get from a browser on the laptop can communicate with it jsut fine. I have managed to turn on an LED by sending 10.0.0.11/$ON#, where the ip address is that of the wifly but cannot get the wifly to then post to the browser as a response that the led is on.