Smoothwall iPad and Apps

[balticstar]

We are having pretty much the same issue with Sophos WS500 and any Ipad/iphone etc trying to connect. Has anybody got a solution yet?

[GrumbleDook]

For us in EMBC lands the solution was the iOS 4.2 (and then 4.2.1) update ... all down to fun and games on X.509 certificate release and so on. What version of iOS are you running?

[SwedishChef]

I have it setup on transparent proxy mode and the smoothy is my DG for that wireless VLAN and the only thing I can't get working using the smoothwall is the itunes streaming :ie movie preview, I get the "Server is not correctly configured error" I did see this as well.... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2457721?start=15&tstart=0

 

have added itunes and apple domain names as exceptions to test as well.

 

So it might be a smoothwall firewall thing for us as well.

[drewp]

A transparent proxy with no authentication/identification was the only way I could get apps to work - wish I had found this thread months ago would have saved me lots of time!

 

So, is a transparent proxy server with no authentication/identification appropriate to use in a school environment?

[tom_newton]

there are fixes in the works later this month for itunes and the Youtube application. Both are workarounds for ipad idiosyncrasies. Am on holiday right now but my colleagues in presales or support will supply further info if asked!

[pete]

there are fixes in the works later this month for itunes and the Youtube application. Both are workarounds for ipad idiosyncrasies. Am on holiday right now but my colleagues in presales or support will supply further info if asked!

 

*Bumps*

 

@tom_newton

 

What's the official state of play/support regarding iOS, apps and Smoothwall? Oh, and Kindle + Smoothwall? And Android + Smoothwall?

 

My horrible lot are eyeing up fondleslabs atm and I want to set their expectations accurately.

 

AFAICT, I have to

 

a) use transparent auth

b) set the SW as the gateway for fondleslab clients (dhcp, not an issue)

 

What I'm unsure about is how to:

 

c) Redirect anything that attempts to use non-standard ports

d) Log failures somewhere.

[tom_newton]

ipad: there's a browser app which redirects web traffic for external use. Internally - transparent proxy ok, you need to whitelist itunes and some youtube urls

android: transparent proxy generally ok - no known issues

kindle: argh, this is not a web device, needs to go directly thru firewall atm

 

redirecting nonstandard ports would be pretty tough - thankfully it does not seem to be needed. Failures would be logged on firewall.