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>So not gonna work for wifi-only iPads Excuse my ignorance of Apple products but how can tethering work on a device without a internet connection ? You want to go trough a iPad proxy to get to a WiFi connection ? Why not just connect to WiFi with the PC ?
You could want to use the iPad as the client. Ie use an iPhone to give internet connection to the iPad. (I guess that what the GP meant)
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>So not gonna work for wifi-only iPads Excuse my ignorance of Apple products but how can tethering work on a device without a internet connection ? You want to go trough a iPad proxy to get to a WiFi connection ? Why not just connect to WiFi with the PC ?
You could want to use the iPad as the client. Ie use an iPhone to give internet connection to the iPad. (I guess that what the GP meant)
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Would everything have to go through their servers? I can’t imagine that HTML5 apps on iOS have permission to open enough sockets to avoid that.
If everything has to go through their servers and then downloaded by the Mac/PC, then it basically defeats the whole purpose of tethering. The real trick is that they found a way to pipe data from the iPhone to the Mac without going through the internet, all using a good ol' browser web page.
Hey guys. I'm the developer behind this tech. Glad to see it's got you thinking :). It took a lot of brainstorming and testing/debugging to get this up and running. Hope you enjoy it!
It did get me and I'm sure a lot of other people thinking. Would you mind answering this Quora question that I set up so I can sleep tonight? http://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Tether-HTML5-app-work
Let's just say it's magic.
For a company that will be handling all of my web browsing, I would have expected them to not store my password in clear text. Doesn't inspire confidence :( Great product idea though!
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) ?
Yes they do. We've tested them on iPhones, BlackBerry browser, and the Aurora browser on Android.
For a company that will be handling all of my web browsing, I would have expected them to not store my password in clear text. Doesn't inspire confidence :( Great product idea though!
I can assure you that the data is encrypted from the phone to the server and never stored anywhere.
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It did get me and I'm sure a lot of other people thinking. Would you mind answering this Quora question that I set up so I can sleep tonight? http://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Tether-HTML5-app-work
I can't really go into much more detail than the first responder did without getting into trouble :) Let's just say it's magic.
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) ?
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.
Hey guys. I'm the developer behind this tech. Glad to see it's got you thinking :). It took a lot of brainstorming and testing/debugging to get this up and running. Hope you enjoy it!
If anything, simply releasing a "Here's what the client is doing so recreate it however possible..." might suffice.
(edited; previously sounded impolite)