Networking

WWDC 2018 Recap
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Thu, 06/14/2018 - 05:50 AM

As you may have heard Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference was last week in San Jose, California showcasing all of the latest updates across all of the Apple platforms. Since Apple and Unix technologies are something I am heavily invested in I thought I would take a few minutes and provide an overview of the Siri and Networking updates that came out of WWDC 2018 that I found interesting.

How to Diagnose App Transport Security Issues using nscurl and OpenSSL

Submitted by matt_eaton on Sat, 05/05/2018 - 08:35 AM

In the last couple of months I have found myself in situations where I have needed to diagnose transport security issues from from the context of an iOS application. This often can be difficult from the client side perspective as you may not know anything about the minimum TLS version, preferred cipher suite, or the certificate in use on the server. Often, the best move you have, if you do not have a direct line to the server side team, is to test different settings to diagnose what works and what does not.

Capturing a Packet Trace from an iOS Device
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 08:52 PM

Capturing a Packet Trace from an iOS Device

Debugging network activity on an iOS device can be challenging. There are fantastic tools built into Xcode that allow you to to see the data flowing in and out of the device, but troubleshooting network activity at the TCP level can be difficult. Often the best option you have is to perform a packet capture at the router level, but this presents it’s own set of challenges.

Advanced Network Debugging in Xcode
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Sun, 04/22/2018 - 11:03 AM

Debugging network issues no matter what platform you are on can be challenging. Often, the deeper you dig into the operating system the harder it can be to analyze and accurately interpret the network traffic you are seeing. And working with iOS is no different. Debugging iOS traffic from a device to a router or from a device to a server can present many challenges.

Swift NIO, Apple's High Performance, Event-Driven, Networking Framework
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 06:57 AM

Swift NIO, Apple's High Performance, Event-Driven, Networking Framework

A few weeks ago Apple released a new open source framework on GitHub called Swift-NIO. What is Swift-NIO? The opening line on GitHub describes the project as a cross platform, event driven, non-blocking, application framework to develop high performance networking applications in Swift. So what does that mean?

Network Security on iOS 11
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Sun, 02/18/2018 - 01:17 PM

In an effort to always keep myself informed and up to date with the latest network security enhancements for iOS and macOS I downloaded and read through the Apple White Paper, entitled iOS Security Guide, January 2018. This security guide itemizes all of the latest security standards and enhancements Apple has put out for development and info security teams to reference when making decisions about how to design their ap

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