Is there any way to get Siri to work via wifi through a proxy?

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Is there any way to get Siri to work via wifi through a proxy?

I work in a school that has wifi with Internet accessible through a proxy. With my previous iPhone 3GS, I was able to get online, access the app store.. In fact, do everything on wifi except receive and send email. Now, with the 4s, I have to add Siri to that list. It works fine everywhere else (on 3G or wifi) but no joy at work. Any ideas? I do have access to the school server so if there's a sneaky server side change to make, I can :)

iPhone 4S-OTHER, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 17, 2011 10:41 AM

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Adam Yearout

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Oct 21, 2011 5:20 PM in response to liveinabin

We were having the same problem here at the School I work at. By looking at some traffic logs and doing some internal testing, it appears Siri attempts to make a direct connection to the outside network using HTTPS (port 443), without using any of the proxy settings you may have configured on the Wifi network.

We've reported it as a bug to Apple but haven't heard anything back yet.

To get around it in the meantime you'll have to punch a hole in your firewall to allow Siri traffic through.

Currently Siri appears to contact IP address 17.174.4.14 over port 443. The IP address may change in the future, but that will at least get you up and going for now. We went ahead and opened the entire 17.174.4.0/24 network, as the entire block of addressess is owned by Apple.

Again, there is no gaurentee that this will not change in the future and break again.

Good luck!

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liveinabin Author

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Oct 21, 2011 5:41 PM in response to Adam Yearout

Excellent stuff. I'll give it a go when I go back after half term. Thanks v much!

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Dec 11, 2012 2:41 AM in response to Adam Yearout

Hi Adam,

I am also not able to use SIRI on my office wifi network beacuse of a proxy web address and port.Rest all Aps and features work fine.I am not very sure how to make the changes to IPaddress as guided by you.

Considering me a noob here can you pls elaborate and explain how do I enable SIRI on wifi with proxy?

🙂

Thanks !!

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