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The way they do it is elegant, and could be used in many other places than just the iPhone. All you need is a browser that supports websockets. I'm not really
by Wilya 15y ago
The way they do it is elegant, and could be used in many other places than just the iPhone. All you need is a browser that supports websockets.
I'm not really aware of that stuff, but I'm a bit curious. Do websockets really work over mobile networks (which are, at least in my experience, transparent proxied, and where anything outside of HTTP-on-port-80/HTTPS-on-port-443 is blacklisted into oblivion) ?
- shankinson 15y agoYes they do. We've tested them on iPhones, BlackBerry browser, and the Aurora browser on Android.
- kenrikm 15y agoI was able to get the original before it was pulled from the App Store. it worked well, glad to see they found a work around. I expect some type of backlash from AT&T/Verizon/Sprint However, I hope they make enough to afford the lawyers.
- mikeash 15y agoNon-web stuff works fine on the mobile networks I've tried it on. I occasionally ssh from my phone directly to my home computer or server, and I've never had a problem with it. Skype works fine over cell data, as do various instant messaging clients. Even if that weren't true, websockets was designed to look a whole lot like HTTP precisely so that it could work with existing proxies and firewalls.
- saurik 15y agoMy experience is the exact opposite: all networks I've used in the US (Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile; in essence, all of the major ones) and the few I've used in the UK (while roaming) have all had sufficiently few outgoing ports blocked that I've never run into one (and I use my iPhone as if it were a computer ;P). That said, WebSockets is just an upgrade extension to HTTP, so it is going to go over 80/443 anyway.
- jcitme 15y agoSame experience here. I use SSH over a wide variety of ports, and never had it blocked by 3G before...