1. Why my iPhone sucks: Screen Scraping the O2 Website Simon Lewis http://lewis.li - simon@lewis.lisimon@lewis.li

2. Overview Observations about the iPhone Why Screen Scrape? MMS solution Conclusions

3. Good Points (Before the Bashing) Web Browser SSL IMAP Email Client Alarm Clock Timer

4. Bad Points EDGE Bluetooth NO 3G Wet piece of string is better connected (Camera, Phone Interface, Text Message Interface)

5. MMS? (maybe it’s not that popular) ERROR

6. Mocking from O2

7. Message List Window

8. Beautiful Interface?

9. No web service available http://o2.co.uk/m not optimised for iPhone There must be a better Solution... HTTP interface can be exploited iPhone Mail app is very nice: SSL IMAP Problems: Opportunities:

10. Screen Scraping? Programmatically accessing webpage content Parsing the contents of the page to extract the information you want Need a language suited to text parsing Laziness - one of the principle virtues of a programmer What tools are available? Perl

11. CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) use Config::IniFiles;use WWW::Mechanize;use Getopt::Long;use MIME::Lite;use YAML qw(LoadFile DumpFile);use Data::Dumper;use CGI qw(:standard);

12. System Overview lewis.li o2.co.uk iPhone 1 2 3 4 5

13. Authentication my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 ); $mech->get( $site_url );$mech->submit_form( form_name => 'fm', fields => { msisdn => $user_name, pin => $user_password });

14. Inbox Listing $mech->content =~ /From:.+? (.+?).+?Subject:.+? (.+?) /s; my @mms_message_links = $mech->find_all_links( url_regex => qr/showMessage/ ); my %unique_mms_links = map { $_, 1 } map { $_->url_abs } @mms_message_links;

15. Iterating through MMS for my $option (@other_options){ $mech->current_form- >value('selectedItem', $option); $mech->submit(); $filename = "/tmp/mms$message_part"; open $fh, "> $filename" or die "$filename: $!"; binmode $fh; print $fh $mech->content; close $fh; $mms_details->{$filename} = $mech->ct(); $mech->back();}

16. Creating the Email my $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From =>"$sender", To =>"$mail_recipient", Subject =>"$subject", Type =>'multipart/mixed'); for my $part (keys %$mms_details) { ( my $nice_name = $part) =~ s!^/tmp/!!; if ($mms_details->{$part} eq 'image/jpeg') { $msg->attach(Type =>'image/jpeg', Path => $part, Filename =>"$nice_name.jpeg", Disposition => 'attachment'); }} $msg->send;

17. Receiving MMS via Email

18. Conclusions CPAN had all the modules needed to automate interaction Messages on the O2 website expire. Email provides a good way to archive content WWW::Mechanize is very useful Radio buttons were the biggest challenge