Sync with Anki iOS app

[GarrisonBaird]

It still has some problems in media sync with iOS app, app will crash after "/msync/begin", I'm not familiar with iOS develop and don't have time to play with it.
But anyway, it gets to work. :)

[tsudoko]

Editing /etc/hosts on a jailbroken device might work as well, that way it would be per-device, not per-network. Note that I can't test if it actually works, since I don't have an iOS device.

[GarrisonBaird]

Theoretically this will work too, this is the best way to implement on the jailbroken device. I don't have the environment to test it ether :(
But there still are some ways to implement on the non-jailbroken device: with new NetworkExtension in iOS 9.
With some custom VPN apps using NE (like Potatso, those apps are actually developped for Chinese to bypass thier firewall...), it is possible to define DNS server and/or hosts on non-jailbroken devices and keep network traffic go through as is.
I personally play in this way, it's very tricky though...... :)

[GarrisonBaird]

Few days later, with many changes to my decks, I tried to debug the problem about media sync, it works well......
Maybe the problem isn't at server side, which means anki-sync-server is compatible with Anki iOS app, including media sync, cheers!

[tsudoko]

Shouldn't the 5th list item be removed then?

[GarrisonBaird]

The problem seems still exist :(
Log from App (debug.log at Documents, can get it from iTunes)

[148****127]: ( reinit, "20028.3" )
[148****127]: ( updateCutoff, 174, 148****400 )
[148****128]: ( "Connecting..." )
[148****129]: ( reinit, "20028.3" )
[148****129]: ( updateCutoff, 174, 148****400 )
[148****129]: ( "Checking media..." )
[148****129]: ( findChanges )
[148****129]: ( "Downloading changes..." )
[148****129]: ( "last local usn in 0" )
[148****130]: ( "mediaChanges resp count: 20832" )
Then it crashes

From captured packages: (not the same session as the one above)

POST - https%3A%2F%2Fsync.ankiweb.net%2Fsync%2Fmeta
POST - https%3A%2F%2Fsync.ankiweb.net%2Fsync%2Fstart
POST - https%3A%2F%2Fsync.ankiweb.net%2Fsync%2FapplyChanges
POST - https%3A%2F%2Fsync.ankiweb.net%2Fsync%2Fchunk
POST - https%3A%2F%2Fsync.ankiweb.net%2Fsync%2FapplyChunk
POST - https%3A%2F%2Fsync.ankiweb.net%2Fsync%2FsanityCheck2
POST - https%3A%2F%2Fsync.ankiweb.net%2Fsync%2Ffinish
POST - https%3A%2F%2Fsync.ankiweb.net%2Fmsync%2Fbegin
POST - https%3A%2F%2Fsync.ankiweb.net%2Fmsync%2FmediaChanges
Then it crashes (Connection closed by client)


Last request body: (/msync/mediaChanges)
--Anki-sync-boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="sk"

***key***
--Anki-sync-boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="c"

1
--Anki-sync-boundary
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="data"; filename="data"
Content-Type: application/octet-stream

***binary***
--Anki-sync-boundary--


Last response body: (about 1.5MB)
{"data": [["*******.mp3", 24138, "********hash********"], ["*******.mp3", 24138, "********hash********"], .................., ["*******.mp3", 24138, "********hash********"]], "err": ""}