YLyla92·May 27, 2017
Not the iOS dev here. I heard good things about PonyDebuggr[0] from Square:
[0] : https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger
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PonyDebugger
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square / PonyDebugger
PonyDebugger
Remote network and data debugging for your native iOS app using Chrome Developer Tools
10Distinct people
10Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5.8KGitHub stars
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What it is
Remote network and data debugging for your native iOS app using Chrome Developer Tools
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Observed mentions: 2012-08-30 17:47:21 UTC to 2017-05-27 02:27:08 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2012 | 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesCharles proxy, Paros, Burp and Fiddler are all great tools to intercept and modify traffic.
Great for debugging or just inspecting/reversing/hacking in general.
Im glad if similar tools are being made available as browser extensions, it might lower the barrier to entry and get more people poking at the network layer.
PS: https://github.com/square/PonyDebugger is a cool debugger that lets you use Chrome developer tools when developing iOS apps.
PS2: https://paw.cloud/ and some other tools take these proxies to a whole new level in terms of UI/polish.
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