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Show HN: Simple iOS Online/Offline Switch for Development

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If you have wired connection, you can setup wifi sharing and turn it on and off. This way you can simulate slow connection as well. (Using http://mschrag.github.com/)

this is interesting. haven't thought about that. thanks!!

I appreciate the licensing. It agrees with me.

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well, i'm afraid it's incompatible with the GPL though :-D

I can definitely see this come in handy, nice stuff :)

Wasn't there something that could simulate a 3G connection? Or was that not for iOS?

there are a few tools that can do that, like the Network Conditioner that comes with the developer tools or something like the Charles Proxy, but the special purpose of this little project is to fake the Reachability Information provided by the Device into completely offline, which is a bit different.

Is turning on and off wifi really that big of a pain point?

In fact yes. At least for stuff I do I consider it necessary to test almost all eventualities when it comes to online/offline behavior. This makes me have to switch between airplane and online a lot of times, and it is simply a matter of time. So I built this to avoid having to toggle on/off airplane mode all the time.

I just use the iOS simulator and switch on and off my Mac's wifi.

I'm streaming my music mostly, so that's a no-go for me, but of course a perfect solution if it works for you.

It would be much more useful if it failed NSURLConnections that are already live—that's the failure case that's difficult to test.

Yes, and it's unfortunately not caught in a reproducible ( does that word exist? ) manner by the existing tools like the connection conditioner. I'll look into it, I thought about extending this project and add some categories to widely used libraries like ASIHTTPRequest, CocoaAsyncSockets and NSURLConnection. Would be superuseful I suppose..

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