There&#x27;s a huge difference. An URL is an absolute black box, a binary that you have to give Apple for certification on each change and that has to call Apple APIs to do anything useful (like network) is not.<p>Apple will scan your App to check for basic violations, that&#x27;s all automated. For instance is there a specific flag that you can initialize a socket with to listen in background. This is only allowed if your app is supposed to stream music in background or do some VoIP thing. So if you&#x27;re app is not that and the software detects you have that flag set anywhere in the code no way you will get it through the certification. There&#x27;s simply no possibility for such analysis with a URL.