Place your bets which ones of these VKontakte apps I'll be able to make work with Smithereen
Now here's the first obstacle: how do I make these apps talk to something I control instead of the real VK servers. For testing I could just put things into /etc/hosts I guess? Oh and I also have to do the self-signed SSL certificate thing because they all use HTTPS for authentication (and only for it, all API calls happen over plaintext HTTP)
@grishka I used Charles Proxy and its request rewrite rules for the exact same purpose.
@grishka (it is a paid application but it's very good and totally worth its 50$)
@broadway_lamb (I'm not the kind of person who pays for anything digital, I've had it pirated for ages)
Ok I'm getting somewhere
One thing I didn't realize is that these apps are new enough to know about `execute`. Smithereen does have that, it's even better than VK's but fully backwards compatible. However, the code that they execute surely assumes things about older API response formats 🤔
@grishka Oh `execute` was such a nice thing to have back then! The closest we'll ever get to bringing PL/SQL to the modern world I guess 😅
@grishka I miss good 'ol Cydia..
