Safari Remote Debugging on Windows

Question

With the release of iOS 6, Apple implemented a feature called remote debugging

A client is having problems with my webapp since installing the new iOS 6 and I can\'t

Answer 1

Additionally, if you're BrowserSync (which u should, btw), you can use it's remote debugging feature which is accessible from the UI. It should work with Safari mobile.

There's a topic about this already: How to do remote debugging with Browser-sync?

This cool feature is powered by Weinre. Not the most pleasant debugger. But it works quite well.

Answer 2

The only solution I see currently is Telerik "AppBuilder". However it's very expensive...

Answer 3

How to debug Safari iOS when you're on Windows?

• Those nice Safari developer tools for iPhone require Safari 6, i.e. they are NOT available on Windows. There are no plans for a Windows version of Safari 6 or, as Apple put it: "Safari 6 is available for Mountain Lion and Lion. Safari 5 continues to be available for Windows." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_%28web_browser%29#Safari_6)

• If your local web server (e.g.: XAMPP) is properly configured, you should be able to visit it from your iPhone once it's connected to your computer. However, on Windows, this does not work either.

Alternatives:

• WebKit Debug Proxy is likely to offer similar functionality using Chrome in place of Safari one day: https://github.com/google/ios-webkit-debug-proxy* "Windows support is planned but not implemented yet."
• Use jsconsole for Remote Debugging: http://jsconsole.com/remote-debugging.html Not safe AT ALL for production (read the warnings, don't use in prod) but very handy.

Hope this helps someone.

Answer 4

Port forwarding on ios device is easy. but the problem is, that ios does not run inspector by default on any port by default.

Answer 5

There is actually a pretty easy way to debug a website in Safari on iOS using Firefox WebIDE on a Windows machine. I wrote an answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/35714835/306179 further describing this solution.