Proximity Updates HTTP/S Explicit Proxy

[gsheppar]

Hi All,

Does Proximity support updates over an explicit proxy? Currently tested this and it can't find the upgrade server.

Regards,

Graham

[gsheppar]

Also, any way to disable the check upgrade option? In this customers case they like all software to be tested prior to pushing out new versions. 

[mneergaa]

If the app is installed system-wide, the app won't auto-update. The update option will be there, but the user will have to perform a manual action with administrative privileges at least.

We have no immediate plans to allow disabling automatic updates entirely.

[kbaker00111]

Is this still the case? Is there any way to disable automatic updates for proximity?

[mneergaa]

There is, and it's supported on Windows for mass deployment purposes.

https://community.cisco.com/t5/mobile-applications-documents/windows-mass-deployment-guide-new-as-of-version-2-0-8/ta-p/3314009

[mneergaa]

I *think* we would honour the http_proxy, https_proxy and/or all_proxy environment variables, as we are using curl. See http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-tutorial.html for details.

Unsure if we honour system-wide proxy as set in windows control panel, actually. Was that what you wished to use?

[gsheppar]

Thanks for whatever reason it says unable to connect to upgrade server. I might have to install wireshark to see whats happening but so far it does not seem to be taking the Proxy settings that are installed into the browser. 

[mneergaa]

I agree, seems we do not heed system wide proxy settings on windows automatically. A problem if we *were* to heed system wide proxy is that we'd likely not reach the local endpoints. Defining expected behavior for this case is difficult...