Accessing iOS Safari Web Inspector from Windows Machine

Question

New iOS 6 Safari comes with Web Inspector feature which allows to connect to it from your desktop Safari via USB cable. It then allows you to debug pages opened in iOS Safar

Answer 1

Setup Vorlon on Windows

npm i -g vorlon
vorlon

Verify Vorlon is Running

Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:1337

Setup Ngrok

• Download Ngrok: https://ngrok.com/download
• Unzip it
• Open a command prompt: Start -> Search -> cmd
• Navigate to ngrok.exe: cd /
• Run it: ngrok.exe http e.g. ngrok.exe http 1337

Ngrok provides a url e.g. https://0ad8c32f.ngrok.io -> localhost:1337

Copy and paste the ngrok url into your webpage.

Navigate to the page under test on your device(s):

http://thepageiwanttotest.com/testing123

References

• Vorlon Reference: http://vorlonjs.com/#getting-started
• Ngrok Reference: https://ngrok.com/download