I'm developing an API and I am hosting it on my desktop server running Windows 10 using php -S localhost:8080 -t D:\Code\Projects\Website.
I want to be able to use my iPhone to visit this localhost:port webpage without plugging my iPhone into my computer via a USB since they are on the same network. Although, my desktop does not have WiFi capabilities; rather it is using an ethernet cable plugged directly into my router. When I use this address on my desktop, it works fine and takes me to my index.php page.
If I open my default gateway 10.0.0.1 NETGEAR Genie, I can see my iPhone's IP is listed as an "attached device."
I added an Inbound rule to my Firewall (TCP, port:8080, allow access, domain/public/private enabled), but I still cannot use my iPhone to reach this webpage using [my_desktop_ipv4]:[8080].
Would there be any security restrictions from my iPhone's iOS settings? Or am I missing something?
When I run a test mobile site in Visual Studio 2010 and it gives me a localhost:4331 I would like to find a way to forward the HTTP port over to my iPhone through the USB cable so I can test on the device.
They key here is using the USB cable instead of a wireless network, as I am working in a very locked down environment where no wifi is available.
I want the iPhone to connect to the internet through the USB cable, so it would be using my Windows LAN connection and have the Windows localhost be visible to iPhone Safari.
I don't think you can do this. You either need to use WiFi, or have your server exposed on a public network that is accessible via your carrier. You might have some more options with a Jailbroken device.
Follow these steps to see it working -
Connect your iPhone to your PC via USB
Find Tethering and Hotspot setting and enable "USB tethering" on your iPhone.
When your PC has been successfully been connected to the internet, type
"ipconfig" in the command prompt. Just copy the ipv4 address(along with port) and enter it on
the browser with your localhost active
If everything goes fine, then enter the same ipv4 address on your mobile(along with port) web
browser.
The server homepage will open on the iPhone.
I hope this helps.
How is a local Debian server setup so that an iphone app in the simulator can communicate with it?
I want to send files and data to the server from an iphone app. and for now I would like it to be locally using the simulator, rather than a device using a router.
Enable NAT and you will find one network on the vm and two on the host computer, being one, a virtual network shared between the two of them. Then simply use their IP addresses as they appear in ifconfig.
I'm trying to test my iPhone application on the device.
I have a mac computer which stores my development environment.
Right now I can only access PHP files using the http://localhost/PHPFileLocation
which does not work when I try to test my app on real device.
How do I configure apache2 to be accessible from outside?
Is it possible to configure it to a specific IP address?
I want to reach some php scripts located on my development machine running apache2 from my iPhone device.
Thanks
If your computer has a WiFi card then you should be able to attach the iPhone remotely to a ad-hoc Wifi network created on your dev machine.
I'm assuming your Mac is behind a router. You should be able to configure your router to port forward connections to your WAN facing IP address to port 80 (the HTTP port) on your Mac - see http://portforward.com/ for some help.
You may also need to turn the firewall off on your Mac.
Once this is set up correctly you can hit http://yourexternalIP/PHPFileLocation in your iPhone app and this will be directed by your router to the Apache2 server on your Mac. The external IP is normally found on your router's admin page somewhere.
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We are looking for a Wireshark-like tool to use on the iPhone to test a 3rd party application before partnering with the 3rd party. Any suggestions?
A man-in-the-middle proxy, like suggested by other answers, is a good solution if you only want to see HTTP/HTTPS traffic.
The best solution for packet sniffing (though it only works for actual iOS devices, not the simulator) I've found is to use rvictl. This blog post has a nice writeup. Basically you do:
rvictl -s <iphone-uid-from-xcode-organizer>
Then you sniff the interface it creates with with Wireshark (or your favorite tool), and when you're done shut down the interface with:
rvictl -x <iphone-uid-from-xcode-organizer>
This is nice because if you want to packet sniff the simulator, you're having to wade through traffic to your local Mac as well, but rvictl creates a virtual interface that just shows you the traffic from the iOS device you've plugged into your USB port.
Note: this only works on a Mac.
You didnt specify the platform you use, so I assume it's a Mac ;-)
What I do is use a proxy. I use SquidMan, a standalone implementation of Squid
I start SquidMan on the Mac, then on the iPhone I enter the Proxy params in the General/Wifi Settings.
Then I can watch the HTTP trafic in the Console App, looking at the squid-access.log
If I need more infos, I switch to tcpdump, but I suppose WireShark should work too.
I use Charles Web Debugging Proxy it costs but they have a trial version.
It is very simple to set up if your iPhone/iPad share the same Wifi network as your Mac.
Install Charles on your Mac
Get the IP address for your Mac - use the Mac "Network utility"
On your iPhone/iPad open the Wifi settings and under the "HTTP
Proxy" change to manual and enter the IP from step (2) and then Port
to 8888 (Charles default Port)
Open Charles and under the Proxy Settings dialogmake sure the
“Enable Mac OS X Proxy” and “Use HTTP Proxy” are ticked
You should now see the traffic appearing within Charles
If you want to look at HTTPS traffic you need to do the additional 2 steps download the
Charles Certificate Bundle and then email the .crt file to your
iPhone/iPad and install.
In the Proxy Settings Dialog SSL tab, add the specific https top
level domains you want to sniff with port 443.
If your Mac and iOS device are not on the same Wifi network you can set up your Mac as a Wifi router using the "Internet Sharing" option under Sharing in the System Preferences. You then connect your device to that "Wifi" network and follow the steps above.
Run it through a proxy and monitor the traffic using Wireshark.
For Mac OS X
Install Charles Proxy
In Charles go to Proxy > Proxy Settings. It should display the HTTP proxy port (it's 8888 by default).
For Windows
Install Fiddler2
Tools -> Fiddler Options -> Connections and check "Allow remote computers to connect"
General Setup
Go to Settings > Wifi > The i symbol > At the bottom Proxy > Set to manual and then for the server put the computer you are working on IP address, for port put 8888 as that is the default for each of these applications
ARP Spoofing
General notes for the final section, if you want to sniff all the network traffic would be to use ARP spoofing to forward all the traffic from your iOS to a laptop/desktop. There are multiple tools to ARP spoof and research would need to be done on all the specifics. This allows you to see every ounce of traffic as your router will route all data meant for the iOS device to the laptop/desktop and then you will be forwarding this data to the iOS device (automatically).
Please note I only recommend this as a last resort.
On a jailbroken iPhone/iPod capturing traffic is done nicely by both "tcpdump" and "pirni"- available in the cydia repository. Analysis of these data are done by tranfering the capture over to another machine and using something like wireshark. However, given the active development that seems to be going on with these tools it's possible that soon the iPhone will handle it all.
The best solution I have found that Works:
Connect your device thru USB
And type these commands:
rvictl -s UDID - (id of device 20 chars, you can locate 4t in iTunes or organiser in Xcode)
sudo launchctl list com.apple.rpmuxd
sudo tcpdump -n -t -i rvi0 -q tcp
OR just sudo tcpdump -i rvi0 -n
If rvictl is not working install Xcode
For more info:
Remote Virtual Interface
http://useyourloaf.com/blog/2012/02/07/remote-packet-capture-for-ios-devices.html
Without knowing exactly what your requirements are, here's what I did to see packts go by from the iPhone: Connect a mac on ethernet, share its network over airport and connect the iPhone to that wireless network. Run Wireshark or Packet Peeper on the mac.
Here is another way http://www.tuaw.com/2011/02/21/how-to-inspect-ioss-http-traffic-without-spending-a-dime/
I didn't see Roger Nolan's reply, the above link is same workflow with a different tool.
Depending on what you want to do runnning it via a Proxy is not ideal. A transparent proxy might work ok as long as the packets do not get tampered with.
I am about to reverse the GPS data that gets transferred from the iPhone to the iPad on iOS 4.3.x to get to the the vanilla data the best way to get a clean Network Dump is to use "tcpdump" and/or "pirni" as already suggested.
In this particular case where we want the Tethered data it needs to be as transparent as possible. Obviously you need your phone to be JailBroken for this to work.
Try Debookee on Mac OS X which will intercept transparently the traffic of your iPhone without need of a proxy, thanks to MITM, as stated before.
You'll then see in real time the different protocols used by your device.
Disclaimer: I'm part of the development team of Debookee, which is a paid application. The trial version will show you all functionnalities for a limited time.
A general solution would be to use a linux box (could be in a virtual machine) configured as a transparent proxy to intercept the traffic, and then analyse it using wireshark or tcpdump or whatever you like. Perhaps MacOS can do this also, I haven't tried.
Or if you can run the app in the simulator, you can probably monitor the traffic on your own machine.
Com'on, no mention of Fiddler? Where's the love :)
Fiddler is a very popular HTTP debugger aimed at developers and not network admins (i.e. Wireshark).
Setting it up for iOS is fairly simple process. It can decrypt HTTPS traffic too!
Our mobile team is finally reliefed after QA department started using Fiddler to troubleshoot issues. Before fiddler, people fiddled around to know who to blame, mobile team or APIs team, but not anymore.