1

Preventing reverse engineering of Urls used in Android app for HTTP Requests

view story
linux-howto

http://stackoverflow.com – I am designing an app that requests data from my server using a HTTP Connection. This data depends on the selected item so I have different urls on my server corresponding to the item chosen. For now I have hardcoded the Urls in the app, I am new to Android so my question is : How can i prevent reverse engineering of these urls? Thank you. (HowTos)

dadebian's picture
Submitted by dadebian on 01/29/2013

Stories similar to Preventing reverse engineering of Urls used in Android app for HTTP Requests

I use the nginx server in doing the Reverse proxy to http://abc.xxxx.com, but the urls includes the google ads urls http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js, i want to block its ads. i try server methods,however,it cant do that. Giving me your support,thanks.

There is an existing application hosted on Apache. I want to send some urls(Post Forms) to another server(not apache - just a program) for some preprocessing.

i have to permament redirect some old urls in nginx. the old urls are old-style php urls including a parameter for loading content. they look like this:

http://www.foo.com/index.php?site=foo http://www.foo.com/index.php?site=bar

i want to redirect them to other urls like:

http://www.foo.com/news http://www.foo.com/gallery

any advice on how i can achieve this? my tries failed.

I have a list of urls with some static-contents of my interest (pdf files and images).

Introduction wget and cur, are great Linux operating system commands to download files. But you may face problems when all you have is a dynamic url.

I have an old application with URLs of the form...

http://apps.myserver.com/appname/viewItem.akt?p=123

I am replacing this old app with one that has URLs like...

http://appname.myserver.com/item/123

I've tried adding several different rewrite rules to httpd/httpd.conf and restarting the server, but I keep getting 404 errors.

A couple things I've tried...

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^.*vi

At some point fairly recently, the URLs shown in the Firefox location bar dropped the protocol prefix -- urls appear as "askubuntu.com" not "http://askubuntu.com" -- if the site is https://... the prefix does appear, but I'd like to see it all the time.

How do I get that back?

[ubuntu] NGINX Configuration 36 weeks 4 days ago

Hi there,

I'm trying to get NGINX set up as a reverse proxy server for multiple SSL sites on one IP using SNI.

I have an HTML file with javascript and CSS in the source. Listed in the JS is a series of URLs' embedded with other meta-data. I want to use awk to extract the URLs (all enclosed in double quotes with the http:// prefix) and dump the urls to stdout.