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Somewhere deep under Cupertino, Jobs is currently beating some hapless dev with a beautifully designed baseball bat.

A seamless bat carved from a single piece of aluminum.

This is what it looks like on my system: http://imgur.com/eo49s

Options are:

Application and Distribution signed by: (None/Signed/Signed by Apple)

Apple ID Authentication: (iTunes, MacBuddy)

Server: (Porco, Localhost, Custom)

Show install progress in dock: (Firenze, App, App no launch, Applications stack)

Who'll be the first to set up a custom server?

I'm guessing the server communication is normally through SSL? If so then this might be a good time to do some protocol analysis before the opportunity disappears. There are a bunch of log dumping options in there.

Transactions, account creation are SSL. Everything else is just plain old HTTP. You can just put it through Wireshark and see near everything going on.

If only we can figure out the same for the iPhone.

The Mac App Store Debug Menu