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user425651
user425651

Reputation: 1

Monitor iPhone application API calls

I was wondering if there is any way to monitor third party iPhone applications' API calls? For instance if application access address book is there a way to monitor that or intercept call? I understand it may not be possible to do so without jail-breaking, but is even possibility after having jail broken the phone?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1085

Answers (3)

keithhackbarth
keithhackbarth

Reputation: 10156

Yes..

  1. Download the mitmproxy tool and set it up by going to the folder of mitmproxy and running sudo python setup.py install. If all goes well, mitmproxy must be available in your $PATH.
  2. Start mitmproxy by running mitmproxy.
  3. Obtain the IP address of your computer by running ifconfig en1 (or whatever is the interface that you are using).
  4. Set the proxy on your iPhone by going to your wireless settings, setting the proxy to be “Manual”, and set the IP to be your computer’s IP and the port as 8080.

Source and awesome use case...

http://mclov.in/2012/02/08/path-uploads-your-entire-address-book-to-their-servers.html

Upvotes: 1

tc.
tc.

Reputation: 33592

If you jailbreak the phone, you can replace the frameworks and add any required logging. It's going to be pretty difficult to do, though.

Upvotes: 0

christo16
christo16

Reputation: 4843

No there isn't.

You can howerver, starting in iOS4, see what apps have used location services (you can find this in settings.app).

Upvotes: 0

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