通过php或javascript检索iPad / iPhone序列号

Question

I am trying to retrieve an iPad/iPhone serial number via PHP or Javascript for the purposes of locking an internal website down to a set of serial numbers.

The only thing I have seen that comes close is creating an application installing it via iTunes then that application sends the serial number to the browser which seems quite long winded. Does anyone have any ideas or even another possible unique identifier that can be used on these devices.

Answer 1

There is no way to do this, even from an iOS application. You will need to choose an alternate method of controlling access to your site.

Answer 2

For your case you actually probably can get the UDID, by getting them to install a .mobileprofile first. (This is something like what testflight or hockeyapp do to register new devices)

See: Getting a device UDID from .mobileconfig

In general though, your solution seems just wrong to me. Why not just go with some kind of standard password based authentication? Doing this, or implementing user-agent checking will not make it truly any more secure.