Why am I having problems w/ most apps and the proxy settings? My corp. network requires proxy settings to get to the internet and only the AppStore and Safari (and a few specifically designed apps) will use the proxy settings. All other apps simply do not work.
Is this an Apple problem? Why was this not addressed by Apple?
iPad 2
We've been told by that it's that the applications were not designed by the developers as being "proxy aware"......they were designed with internet hotspots etc in mind, and not for a proxied network. I know this isn't what you wanted to hear😟
That sounds like a "cop-out" to me. Do individual applications on desktop machines have to be "proxy aware"?
Is it possible to have an app do this? That is certainly something I'd pay for. (I'm not savvy enough to write it myself.)
How can Apple expect to compete in the Enterprise space with this glaring hole in their operating system? Why can't there be a setting, e.g., "all internet traffic to use proxy server".?
Am I to understand that Apple has decided that "we are just holding it wrong" and will not help us solve this problem?
Is there someone we can discuss this with on a higher level?
(Wow, an entire post with two declaratory sentences and six questons. 🙂 )
Apple's primary focus is the consumer space, enterprise needs will always be secondary.
But there should be a distinction between "secondary" and "ignored to the point of useless for many."
NestOfRobins wrote:
That sounds like a "cop-out" to me. Do individual applications on desktop machines have to be "proxy aware"?
Yes, they have. Not only on iPad, but every internet application, on Mac or on PC or on *nix, have to be coded internally to use proxies. Some are, and are also smart enough to check for any proxy info on network options of your system, some other will have the proxy info to be given in internal application setup, and some other, simply does not know what proxies are.
NestOfRobins wrote:
How can Apple expect to compete in the Enterprise space with this glaring hole in their operating system? Why can't there be a setting, e.g., "all internet traffic to use proxy server".?
That is a SOCK, and is another different stuff. There is no hole in the O.S., it is the app you want to use, because that app wants connect the internet by herself, without using your proxy.
Best advice is, you ask that app's developer, to add in future releases, proxy connectivity or (best) to check if network requires a proxy and act accordingly without bother the user on the issue 🙂
Anyway, I'd like answer also your other questions:
NestOfRobins wrote:
Why am I having problems w/ most apps and the proxy settings?
You have problems because that apps don't think about the proxy setting you have in your network configuration (app poorly coded), or they require direct internet access in their specs (app aware of proxy, and do not want use it), access that you don't have because of proxy. Not your fault. Nor Apple's
NestOfRobins wrote:
this an Apple problem? Why was this not addressed by Apple?
Not an Apple problem, so there is nothing to address.
So than ... Place make YouTube as a proxy aware app - web access is allowed :-)
Btw I am still private consumer with private iPad behind corporate walls.
iPad and proxy settings for more than AppStore and Safari?
