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There have been a few very rare scenarios where I have actually required a dynamic header in a project. I mention Xcode in the title however this technique really applies to nearly any IDE or command line project.

Following on from last week’s blog, this will cover monitoring an iPhone’s HTTPS traffic. If you haven’t already, look at the setup from last week as it is required in order for this next part to work.

Previously when I’ve needed to monitor web traffic from my iPhone I would use my laptop to redistribute my wifi as a 2nd network with another network card and use a tool like WireShark or Charles to monitor everything that’s being sent and received from my iPhone after I connected to the 2nd network. This was overcomplicating things, hidden in the iPhone’s settings is the ability to connect to a proxy server, meaning you can debug web traffic without the need for any 2nd networks or ethernet cables.

When developing on the Mac and using custom frameworks in your application, when you compile the frameworks are copied into your applications bundle then linked at runtime. These frameworks will most likely be bundled up with their headers. Some of the frameworks you include may not be things you want to make public to the world, which you are essentially doing by including the headers with the framework.