iBooks 1.0.1 unable to sign in

[iPodNano3]

when i enter credentials, it tells me apple account creation is unavailable on this device
however, the create account page works fine, just unable to sign in

 

[iPodNano3]

after 6 months, i finally found the solution: use charles proxy to rewrite the User-Agent request header from ibooks 1.0 to ibooks 1.18 (you dont have to change the mac os x version)
in the response headers you can see an error message talking about needing a newer other client for account creation, so i looked up the version number for a version of ibooks from os x 10.14, and that was it

 

[DurltazorOSXPower]

Hello, how are you? Could you explain your change better? I tried to do it on mine but it still displays the message mentioned at the beginning of the post.

 

[f54da]

If it's that simple, you could probably write a SIMBL plugin to modify the user-agent in memory (literally overwrite it)

 

[iPodNano3]

Hello, how are you? Could you explain your change better? I tried to do it on mine but it still displays the message mentioned at the beginning of the post.

what proxy are you using? what configurations have you set so far?
if using charles, i forgot to mention you need to enable ssl proxying with *.itunes.apple.com.

 

[DurltazorOSXPower]

I'm using Jonathanland's proxy, I didn't get the license you mentioned... I'm going to take a new test in the morning.

 

[iPodNano3]

I'm using Jonathanland's proxy, I didn't get the license you mentioned... I'm going to take a new test in the morning.

what license?

 

[iPodNano3]

I'm using Jonathanland's proxy, I didn't get the license you mentioned... I'm going to take a new test in the morning.

that proxy is hard to configure so for the time being i am using charles which has an easy to use gui and does the same things

 

[DurltazorOSXPower]

So after activating the ssl proxy, I'm getting a different error as per the print... am I missing something?

 

[iPodNano3]

So after activating the ssl proxy, I'm getting a different error as per the print... am I missing something?

did you set up the rewrite rule to modify the user agent header? from what i can see in the images, you are still sending the xml request using the ibooks 1.0 user agent. also, it seems that you dont have the charles certificate installed, so please do that first in order for anything to work. i translated your error message and it says "connection failed" which likely suggests you dont have the certificate.

 

[iPodNano3]

i would recommend leaving charles running 24/7 since it doesnt harm your computer in any way and if you do quit the proxy, ibooks will immediately stop working. plus you can use the proxy for so many other things.