How to access remote connection requests from safari, facebook and other applications on iPhone

Question

I noticed one application on app store recently named onavo which access internet connection usage from other applications on iPhone like safari, facebook, youtube, etc. Is there any API available for this. How they have implemented it. Curious to know about it.

Answer 1

I've found the answer on Quora. As follow:

http://www.quora.com/How-is-Onavo-able-to-direct-all-the-data-traffic-to-their-proxy-without-using-iOS-private-APIs

Roi Tiger, CTO of Onavo

Hi, I'm the CTO of Onavo, thank you for checking out our service. After installing Onavo you are prompted to install a configuration profile which allows the data to be redirected through Onavo's servers using a proxy server settings.

Configuration profile installation does not require any private API access in the iOS platform.

Another answer: http://www.quora.com/How-does-Onavo-manage-to-compress-data-traffic