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    copied!<p>Looks like you can get the UDID without terribly too much work, this answer is from this blog post: <a href="http://bendytree.com/tips/Getting-an-iPhone-UDID-from-Mobile-Safari" rel="noreferrer">http://bendytree.com/tips/Getting-an-iPhone-UDID-from-Mobile-Safari</a></p> <p>Apple allows developers to get a person's UDID (&amp; do many other things) through a special interaction between the phone and your web server. Here's an overview:</p> <ol> <li>They click a link to a .mobileconfig XML file on your website </li> <li>This pulls up their provisioning settings on their phone &amp; offers them an 'Install' button (which they must press) </li> <li>The phone sends the data you requested in encrypted XML to the URL you set in your .mobileconfig </li> <li>You process the resulting data &amp; show them a "thank you" web page</li> </ol> <p>Example .mobileconfig for retrieving a UDID:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt; &lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt; &lt;plist version="1.0"&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;PayloadContent&lt;/key&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;URL&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;http://yourwebsite.com/retrieve.php&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;DeviceAttributes&lt;/key&gt; &lt;array&gt; &lt;string&gt;UDID&lt;/string&gt; &lt;string&gt;IMEI&lt;/string&gt; &lt;string&gt;ICCID&lt;/string&gt; &lt;string&gt;VERSION&lt;/string&gt; &lt;string&gt;PRODUCT&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/array&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;PayloadOrganization&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;yourwebsite.com&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;PayloadDisplayName&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;Profile Service&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;PayloadVersion&lt;/key&gt; &lt;integer&gt;1&lt;/integer&gt; &lt;key&gt;PayloadUUID&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;9CF421B3-9853-4454-BC8A-982CBD3C907C&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;PayloadIdentifier&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;com.yourwebsite.profile-service&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;PayloadDescription&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;This temporary profile will be used to find and display your current device's UDID.&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;PayloadType&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;Profile Service&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/plist&gt; </code></pre> <p>You'll need to fill in your own URL and PayloadUUID. The PayloadUUID doesn't have to be generated in a special way - just make sure it is unique to your app.</p> <p>Also make sure to register a file handler for .mobileconfig (content type application/x-apple-aspen-config).</p> <p>PayloadOrganization and PayloadDescription are shown to the user when they see the profile. In my description, I said something like "Press Install to continue..." since they may be confused on this screen.</p> <p>You don't have to sign your .mobileconfig, but if you don't then they will see a warning that it is not signed (see below).</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pVMgq.jpg" alt="Not signed profile image"></p> <p><strong>Receiving the Requested Data</strong> QUIRK WARNING: For whatever reason, the process is EXTREMELY particulary about how your server responds when it sends the user to your preset URL. After many tries, I believe that your receiving url MUST be a .php file. This sounds nuts but I'm serious.</p> <p>PHP was about the last language I wanted to work in, so I chose to redirect to a page that could handle it better.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $data = file_get_contents('php://input'); header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/Results?data=".rawurlencode($data)); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>QUIRK WARNING:: The only way I (&amp; others) have got it working is to redirect to a directory. I've tried to redirect to a .aspx page and it failed. If you do not get this right, then a vague error message will be shown to the user &amp; they will be stuck. If you have a better explaination for this, please leave a comment below.</p> <p>The page that you redirect to is the page that is shown to the user to end the process.</p> <p>In my example, that page would receive a 'data' query string parameter containing the xml response from the phone.</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt; &lt;plist version="1.0"&gt; &lt;dict&gt; &lt;key&gt;IMEI&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;12 123456 123456 7&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;PRODUCT&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;iPhone4,1&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;UDID&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;b59769e6c28b73b1195009d4b21cXXXXXXXXXXXX&lt;/string&gt; &lt;key&gt;VERSION&lt;/key&gt; &lt;string&gt;9B206&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/dict&gt; &lt;/plist&gt; </code></pre>
 

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