Just write some http app on the laptop, and hit it with requests (urls) from 
the iOS app; this would be the Q&D way to do it easily and with some level of 
security (https). 

Since you already have a web app, you can just add some admin requests to it. 
-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__

> Le 23 sept. 2016 à 16:27, Eric E. Dolecki <edole...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> I am going to have a web application running on a local laptop - which runs
> various a prototype of a user experience.
> 
> I've been asked to add an iOS application to the mix, to control parameters
> in the running app on the laptop.
> 
> What might be the best way to architect this type of set up (and also
> easiest)? Have the web app poll a file for contents - and have the iOS app
> talk to a PHP page with POSTs of values and write to that file - and have
> my app poll it? Sounds terrible. Some AJAX thing? I'd like to avoid a
> database if possible.
> 
> Just throwing this out there. If it's too off-topic, please disregard this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
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