Field Agents issued an iPad need to identify it for access to html5 site.

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We are creating an html5 website for an insurance company and they are considering deploying iPads to their field agents to access the website. They want the site to be html5 and hosted on their server so no local application is possible.

They want to be able to lock down access to the site to only company issued devices. I know UDID is gone and I heard that there were a couple of other options (Vendor or Advertising identifiers) but I am not sure we could access these from javascript.

I am looking for suggestions even if it could require purchasing software for the field devices that we could access from javascript.

Thanks,

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Posted 23-Jul-13 6:24am

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Ron Beyer · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-23T07:16:00

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I would just set the iPad to be on a VPN[^] then only expose the site to the intranet. You can then use VPN security to make sure that devices that belong to the company are on the network and if a device becomes stolen/lost you can disable access for that device.

Posted 23-Jul-13 7:16am

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besmith2 24-Jul-13 6:59am

Simple answer is sometimes the best! Thanks