App that uses VPN on iPhone

Question

Hello everyone

I need to use the iPhone to write an application that communicates with a server app. It will either be Wifi (when close) or GPRS/etc when remote.

The major requirement is for a secure connection. (So VPN was suggested)

So basically I have 3 questions in the same sphere: 1. Is there VPN support in iPhones 2. Another way to do encrypted communications with a remote server 3. Ability to configure & control all of this on an iPhone programmatically (App should do everything)

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

There are iPhone vpn apps, but vpn is not the same as encrypted communications, do you have any requirement to be on a vpn, or are you just trying to talk to an external facing server? iPhone supports ssl which might be better.