Ian, Thank you for the rapid reply and for opening a head shop for my convenience. I wondered whether it had to do with App Store guidelines, which (as a rational and hence terrified Internet user) I normally welcome.
If I knew any stoner slang, I’d close with a clever pun around THC and HTTP. Perhaps it’s just as well that I don’t. Thanks again. Ed Sent from my iPad > On Oct 10, 2022, at 4:50 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ed Gottsman wrote >> it does sometimes leave me wishing for a feature that’s available only on > the other platforms … Is it actually missing or am I just not looking in > the right places? > > It is actually missing. On purpose. > > You are at liberty to deliberately open your backdoor to all-comers, but I > cannot release an app on App Store which transparently opens your backdoor > to all-comers. As you're no doubt aware, iOS is a heavily guarded platform. > There are J scripted utilities like websockets, pacman and by extension > httpget I cannot bundle with the app without violating Apple guidelines. > > It's like me selling you a bong for smoking weed, but you have to locate > your own weed. > > HINT: try this in jqt904: > open '~system/util/pacman.ijs' > Wouldn't that be a good script to copy to your iCloud Drive. Files app on > your iPad might just be able to see it. […Untested] > It should work for dylibs too, which are contraband to App Store. > >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 09:34, Ed Gottsman <edward.j.gotts...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Hello. I’m working on an iPad for the foreseeable future and while the >> iPadOS implementation of J represents a triumph of tenacity and cleverness >> it does sometimes leave me wishing for a feature that’s available only on >> the other platforms. At the moment, that feature is http GET support, >> which I cannot seem to locate. Is it actually missing or am I just not >> looking in the right places? >> >> Many thanks. >> >> Ed >> >> Sent from my iPad (of course) >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
