Although I knew it was coming, the twitter post from Andrew Lunny yesterday made me very happy:
hosted weinre for PhoneGap Build is now live at http://debug.phonegap.com
Awesome! The fine folks at Nitobi are running this server, not me. Thank you so much! I owe everyone involved a cool beverage of your choice, next time we meet (OSCON?).
Of course, if you have any questions about using weinre, including this new public debug server, don't hesitate to ask:
- Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/group/weinre
- IRC: #phonegap @ irc.freenode.net
- GitHub issues - https://github.com/pmuellr/weinre/issues, for bug reports, feature requests, etc
some additional things to do for multi-user weinre servers
There's always more work to do, isn't there?
make the front page easier to use and understand, if required
optimize client and target resources - ok, this is kinda embarrassing, but the weinre server is not making use of some of the well-known best practices to optimize HTTP resource access
provide some hints / tips / best practices for folks wanting to run their own multi-user weinre server
In case you're wondering why someone would want to run another multi-user weinre server, now that we have one "in the cloud":
um, you're going to depend on the cloud?
there's not much security around the current weinre client/server interaction patterns, and there is at least the problem that the current debug packets are flowing across the internet in plain text. That includes, at a minimum, any serialized versions of DOM nodes that you are seeing in the DOM elements panel.
Given that, seems like it would make sense for organizations to run their own in-house weinre servers.
I'm planning on setting up a weinre server inside the IBM firewall for IBMers to use. I'll post news on that subject to the new weinre "Community" I set up on the IBM internal "Connections" page. To find that community, search for weinre, mobile, debug, etc.
