"indicating why you need the SSID"

You're kidding, right?

-Carl

> On Nov 12, 2015, at 4:03 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote:
> 
> Sadly, this is the direction Apple has taken. You can try to ask them for an 
> exception (I think for getting approved as a hotspot helper), but they 
> refused my request. I don't even remember the right channel to ask.
> 
> I do recommend writing a Radar report indicating why you need the SSID.
> 
>> On Nov 12, 2015, at 11:04 , Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I have an in-house iPhone app that displays the SSID of the connected WiFi 
>> ad-hoc network on the UI. 
>> 
>> I've been using these simple steps to get a network info dictionary:
>> CNCopySupportedInterfaces()
>> CFArrayGetValueAtIndex()
>> CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo()
>> 
>> In iOS 9, the above has been deprecated in favor the new NEHotspotHelper 
>> class. My app doesn't want/need to be a 'hotspot helper', I just would like 
>> to obtain the current network's SSID string, if any. Using NEHotspotHelper 
>> seems like tremendous overkill (plus having to register the app as a 
>> 'hotspot helper') just to do this. Is there a simpler way?
>> 
>> -Carl
>> 
>> 
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