I have implemented a web service on my mac and I am able to access its functionalities through the url "http://localhost:8080/ServiceApp-war/resources/".
As I got satisfying results that I could see in the iPhone simulator in Xcode, I decided to connect my iPhone and test on it. But for this to work I think I need to change the "localhost" in my URL to the IP address of my mac.
I tried to replace it with my public IP address and I got a "could not connect to the server" error on my console. I also tried to replace "localhost" with the IP address I found in System Preferences-->Network-->Wi-Fi and I could see that it was working on the simulator but still nothing when I connect my iPhone and run the application on it.
Please provide a solution for accessing my web service remotely.
Thank you.
Create hotspot from your mac, connect to it with your iPhone and try again.
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Try some service for temporary domain, it will make your computer accessible from anywhere.
How do you "connect" your iPhone? USB connection does not create a network. Well, it does create if you turn on Personal Hotspot on your iPhone (maybe in some other cases, dunno). But the most simple way is to connect Mac and iPhone to the same WiFi network.
Once connected, you can use any of "ping" apps available on App Store. Just look for "ping" (some kind of "network reachability test" or so). You can check if your Mac is really reachable on the network.
If it's not reachable, check your network settings on both devices: do they belong to the same subnet, do they use the same gateway, etc.
If your Mac is reachable with ping, then you should deal with your web service. I setup the web server (which is already distributed within OS X): it already has all the settings to allow other devices to connect. But your web service may require some additional setup. It's two basic things: it should bind to your IP address (please check http://YOUR.IP:8080/ServiceApp-war/resources/ from your Mac!) and second, accept incoming connections from other agents, you should find it somewhere in its settings.
Ngrok was the perfect solution I was looking for.
https://ngrok.com
You could also try finch, which is similar to ngrok. It has a nice friendly GUI. https://meetfinch.com
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I have a REST API on my dev machine. If an app is running on a real device, how do I connect?
At present, I am looking up the IP address of the machine on the local network and setting that as the domain in the app's Info.plist.
However, this is a nightmare because the IP address changes everywhere I go and sometimes it inexplicably won't connect.
Is there an easier way of doing this?
I've used OHHTTPStubs to deal fake data. At least now I can work on the UI without needing to be concerned with the network.
Hi StackOverflow community.
I am beginning a new project and was wondering if I could get some insight on VPNs and iPhones.
I want to create a VPN so that I can route all of my network traffic through it from my iPhone. I also hope to log each request that was routed through the VPN? (Similar to Hooked)
I am not sure where to start - any insight would be helpful!
Here is my initial plan:
1) Create a VPN (what should I use to create it?)
-How to accept iPhone request?
-How to route all requests to where they need to go?
2) Hook VPN up to iPhone and route all traffic through it
This is actually not a programming, but a network question. So you might rather post a question over at serverfault.
You need a VPN server that in best case, has a fixed IP. From your iPhone you connect to this VPN via the external IP. If you don't have a fixed one, you'd need to update the IP from time to time or use DynDNS or something similar, but they're not perfect, as far as I know.
You configure & connect the VPN within the iPhones Settings app (General → VPN)
Within the VPN your iPhone gets assigned an IP address within the IP range of your private network (e.g. 10.0.0.xxx).
All the devices traffic gets routed through the VPN. When you have extensive logging on the VPN sever, you should be able to get a log of these requests.
EDIT
This is all really broad and generalized. But as mentioned, this is mostly about VPN Sever configuration and, thus cannot be further discussed here on SO.
So I have an ejabberd (XMPP) server setup on my MacBook. Connects fine with Simulator, only intermittently on the device. The two times it hasn't connected were at cafes that had sign-on gateways for their Wi-Fi. I know nothing when it comes to networks, but I'm guessing this is a Firewall thing?
I'm supposing I can't get around the firewall without an elaborate workaround.
I've found that turning off Wi-Fi on both devices and turning on tethering so that both devices are communicating via data works. However, I'd rather not do this as my data plan is limited and I'd like to be freely internet-connected while I work.
Is there a way to setup XCode to have the phone use the USB connection to access the server on the MacBook? Or maybe some other way I'm not imagining?
Bluetooth doesn't work.
I don't believe that the problem is with some kind of firewall on the network…
Try using the local IP address instead of the hostname, It will change from network to network. To get it, you can open the network utility
In this case it would be [xmppStream setHostName:#"172.16.1.2"];
On the mac, we can easily update the 'hosts' file and send a web-service hit to local server, and get the required data (faster). Can we do something similar if the Server and iOS application are both under the same Wifi network (for example)?
I don't think there is a 'hosts' file for the iOS devices. But you can use bonjour service to advertise your server over local WiFi network. Your iOS app can use bonjour to discover such servers.
I guess what you could do to point your iPad to a local server even when accessing a global url is this, if I understand your question right:
Create a WIFI network on your Mac
Update the hosts file on your Mac and let the "global" address point to your local service
Now when you access the "global" address on your iPad it will go via your Mac and will therefore point to the local machine
I hope this helps
I don't think one has access to a kind of hosts file in iOS, but you can definitely access servers in your local network using Bonjour.
<hostname>.local
I'm developing a web-based application for iOS devices and want to access it from my Home Screen (via an icon).
I'm able to see the site from an external device by going to http://10.0.1.4:3000, however when I try http://computername.local:3000, Safari fails to load the page.
I've tried visiting both addresses (without the port) where I have another web server running (on port 80 of course) and these both work perfectly fine.
As you've probably already guessed my application is in Rails and I've tried using both Webrick and 'thin' servers to see if it was the server that was at fault, but still not fixed.
Obviously I'd prefer to use the bonjour name, so that I can always access the app from any LAN, regardless of their IP ranges and other settings.
Any suggestions on ways to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.
Are you advertising a _http._tcp service on port 3000? Check out the mdns command line utility or Network Beacon.
Problem solved.
I'm using Snow Leopard and disabling IPv6 was all that was required for it to work it would seem.
Also of note, publishing the service was not required, mainly because it didn't need to be discovered.