I am making iPhone application for accessing bugzilla (application).
Rightnow my application is allow to access bugzilla from anywhere without VPN IPSec, but whenever some bugzilla's required VPN IPsec authentication to use from outside the network,
It will not allow to access bugzilla from my iPhone application,
how can I code to configure VPN first then connect to bugzilla?
Thank you.
There isn't any programmatic access to the VPN system on the iPhone so you can do it in your application. If the question is if it can be done at all on the iPhone the answer is yes though since the iPhone itself does support VPN with ipsec. The user would need to set that up and activate it before trying to connect using the application.
Please have a look at the existing application for accessing Bugzilla on iPhone.
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I am using wamp on my laptop as a local server and i want to access it on my android and iOS device in order to test my web application, i have already tried by using ipv4 address but its not working, how to do it? Please describe. Thanks in advance.
You might want to try local tunnelling services like ngrok...their documentation is easy to understand.
I am looking at the features of 1password app which allows us to save a password and access the same data via its mac osx app.
If I was to create an chrome extension for my OSX app - how could it share data with a chrome extension and the Mac App?
Two broad possibilities:
Native Messaging. That's the more secure mechanism, but has only-one-way-to-use-it that essentially means you'll need some "proxy" application that Chrome can start, and that can communicate with your application - it cannot connect to an already-running process.
Local Web(Socket) server. Your native application can open a local port and the extension would try to connect to it and talk this way. Makes it hard to authenticate parties: your extension and your app has no warranties they are not talking to something hostile. Include your own authentication.
See also this question.
FWIW, 1password uses a local WebSocket port.
Im interested in doing some development from my iPad, and one idea I had would be to code from the safari browser. Does anyone know of a way to set up eclipse on a cloud-based server, so that it can be accessed from a browser?
I believe, you will need the following parts to make it work
The cloud server must be based on one of the supported Eclipse Target Environments.
The cloud server provider must support UI based on some sort of remote desktop - e.g. VNC. Be aware that many cloud providers does not allow UI.
iPad must support the same remote desktop technology. There seem to be many VNC implementations for iPad...
I guess the difficult part is to find a cloud server to use. Though you, as an alternative, could use any PC with an VNC server where you have Internet access...
super basic question - I am building an iphone app but will need to set up my computer as a server so my app can send data to my computer. what are the first steps that i need to take?
Thanks!
If you are writing an iPhone app you are probably on a Macbook so you can easily enable Apache in system preferences, click sharing, enable web sharing it will then show you your computers IP address that you can hit over a web browser.
That will set you up with a web server on your machine. Since your emulator and web server will be on the same wifi network and even if you deploy to the device you can have it on your wifi network you should be able to post data to your Mac's web server.
If you are passing data to it you'll need to read about 'web services', probably REST web services. I would then suggest reading about PHP and/or Ruby or Python as your programming language to interpret what you are posting to the web service.
Hope that helps you on your way.
If you are not on a Mac you can't develop an iPhone app anyways ;) so the above strategy should work for you.
3G will only work for you if your server is available outside of the network. Tons of info online on how to set that up but essentially what you would do is configure your router to forward incoming traffic from (for example) port 8080 to the ip address of your server. Assuming you are on a router.
As a side note, if down the line you use Ruby you could check out http://www.heroku.com/how if you want to host your server there
I was thinking about creating an iPhone app "front end" for one of our internal systems.
I suspect this will need to run via a Cisco VPN (connecting with a key code).
What are the options to do this on the iPhone?
Do you need to manually connect to a VPN somehow using the iPhone and then start the iPhone app?
Or can the app prompt users to enter their key code and then start the VPN session?
No, (as of iPhone SDK 3.1.2) there's no API provided by the SDK to manipulate VPN connections. The user will have to manually connect to the network.
While there may not be an API available to manipulate the VPN itself, as of iOS 3.0 enterprises can at least enforce hosts within particular domains be accessed via a VPN, and "VPN On Demand" can be used to turn on the VPN when a given resource is being accessed. Without the enterprise deployment tools though, I suspect you're out of luck.
It doesn't sound like the application will be able to have any insight in to any of this happening, though.
Ref: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1424
Try iSimplyConnect - it support Dial-On-Demand.