This project has a ridiculously simple means of creating a stub for a web service in the cloud:

https://github.com/Mahoney/wiremock-heroku

1. Create a heroku account (it’s free)
2. Clone project
3. Login to heroku
4. Run one script
5. Configure what the service does from a client app.

This allows the creation of a minimal web service in less than 10 minutes.

Wiremock is a stubbing web server – it sends fixed results to given patterns.

Wiremock server is a remotely configurable instance of wiremock.

Heroku is a low initial cost web hosting service.

The apple id system is poorly implemented.

It is possible for the apple id to be locked our because it is asking for a different account without prompting. It then requires that passwords not be reused for a year. It also has an insane complexity requirement and does not even permit the £ character to be used.