How To: Jailbreak Your iPad 2 4.3.3 With a Local Webserver on OSX

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Just a few days ago the Jailbreakme 3.0 files were leaked across the net in an unfinished version.  The leak was soon taken down.  And while the official release of Comex’ Jailbreak appears to be only a short time away, there are a lot of people out there that have patience issues.  Judging by the hits on sites all around the web looking for ways to jailbreak an iPad 2, there’s a ravenous crowd of iPad 2 owners that just can’t wait for any chance to crack open their Apples.  Well now we have an alternate method from Ryan Vanniekerk, you can now set up your own web-based jailbreak using a local webserver on OSX snow leopard.

After a bit of digging I happened across a relatively inconspicuous comment that lead me to believe that the “unable to download jailbreak files” was attempting to connect directly to Comex’s server (located at 157.22.252.87) in order to download the existing jailbreak files. However, the files attempting to be downloaded were the exact same files that had already been leaked earlier in the day, they simply existed in a separate location.

My first thought was to spoof a local webserver with the same IP that the jailbreak is connecting to in order to make it look for the files there instead. After a bit of tinkering around I finally managed to bypass the 403 error and successfully jailbreak my iPad 2!

While Vanniekerk did his jailbreak on a Mac, he believes it is possible to tweak it to work on Windows as well.  For the full tutorial and most up-to-date information, you can follow the link to Ryan’s website.  As this is an experimental method at best, we do not wish to post the guide here as the process may be changed or become more efficient as time goes on.  If you run into any trouble, his site is also a good source of troubleshooting information.  If you’d like to check out this method, follow the link HERE.

Via: Cult of Mac

Source: Ryan Vanniekerk