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Mobile Safari plug-in downloads files to your iPhone/iPod touch

Now this is just amazingly cool. iPhone hacker hachu developed a download plug-in for MobileSafari. Once installed and customized, it allows you to download data off the Internet and store it on your iPhone or iPod touch local disk in the /var/root/Downloads folder.

I downloaded the package (it's variously on RapidShare and BadOnGo; see the hackint0sh thread for links) and gave it a whirl. Following the instructions on the thread for modifying the Info.plist file, I told the plug-in to download MP3 files. (I had to disable playback as well in the QuickTime plug-in--so make sure to read the entire thread!) Now back in Safari, when I navigated to an MP3 file and selected it, this green Download button appeared. I tapped it, and the file downloaded perfectly. Before, the QuickTime plug-in would have just played the file back in Safari.

iPhone enthusiast RohitK asked if there was an easy way to play back these downloaded files using my software. As there wasn't at the time, I went ahead and modded my SendFile application to search ~/Downloads as well as ~/Media/Documents. You can grab a copy of the modded app here. This allows you to email, share and play back the downloaded media on demand, whether or not you are connected to the Internet.

Thanks to RohitK and Xadacka.



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Now this is just amazingly cool. iPhone hacker hachu developed a download plug-in for MobileSafari. Once installed and customized, it...
 

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Joe

Hello Erica,
Can you tell us the exact steps that *you* took to allow you to download MP3s onto your phone? That thread is quite a mess, to say the least. I've been trying for the last hour to get this working. If you could simply tell us what you did to allow the downloading of MP3s, and then their playback, that make this post worthwhile.

Thanks.

December 27 2007 at 7:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
lazaruz

how do i add mpeg video to the plist i dont know how im post to type it out..

December 11 2007 at 11:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeremiah VanderMolen

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/8930/snap173211jm2.jpg

December 10 2007 at 5:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alex

Incredible, Amazing!.. But my god is that the ugliest button ever created. Is it possible to add the ability to upload our own in future updates?? Or, please, get in contact with me and I'll design you a very pretty, elegant button, that doesn't look like such ass. Great work and all. It works perfectly for me and I've put it to very good use. In about a week, i'll be posting a guide for using this too effectively.

Please, get in contact with me, I'll fix the tackiness right away. You can contact me through my blog:
http://ipodtouchmodding.blogsot.com

December 08 2007 at 8:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Greg Hartstein

This File Sharing Plug-In has been added to NetServices as a control and available in the latest update. An optimized version of the plug-in has been added to the CopyCoders installer repository. This version has scripting included designed to work with NetServices. Due to the specific nature to the scripting needed no other install is promised to work.

Add CopyCoders to your installer sources and NetServices along with the File Sharing Plug-In and many other netwrok services will become available in CopyCoders folder.

Open Installer
Tap Sources along bottom navigation bar
Tap Edit along top navigation bar
Tap Add along top navigation bar
Enter: http://homepage.mac.com/hartsteins/copycoders/copycoders.xml
Tap OK
Once Installer finishes adding source - Tap Done
CopyCoders should now appear as a source in "Other Sources". If it does not -Tap Refresh.
Tap Install along bottom navigation bar
NetServices...etc will now be available for installation under the "CopyCoders" heading.

Thanks

Greg

December 06 2007 at 5:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Daniel Wanitsch

Are there any plans to add VPN as a service soon?
Would be great!!

December 29 2007 at 10:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
punkassjim

FYI, there's a nice little step-by-step install at this link:
http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showthread.php?t=18331

And I've put in a request to Greg Hartstien to add an on/off switch to NetServices so we can turn this on and off easily. Right now it can be toggled at the command line, but putting a control in NetServices would be nice for those of us who like a smooth user experience.

December 05 2007 at 8:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hourog

Being able to DN Excel files of ~900K and then *search* them would make the iPhone/iPod touch even more awesome.

Any chance, Erica?

December 05 2007 at 6:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iPhones Man

Britney Spears iPhone Launched

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December 05 2007 at 2:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jtd

Any chance we could get this put into the Installer.app repos?

December 05 2007 at 1:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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