Has anyone had much experience getting PROS to function with computers that run through proxy servers? It runs fine on my own computer and my school computer. So for now my students have been programming on those. I really want the students to be able to do it all on their own computers (with the files sitting in a shared folder on Google Drive). The student computers are set up differently, though, and getting the specifics down has been tripping up IT.
Thanks!
PROS doesn’t require an internet connection to function…
What exactly are you trying to get to work through proxy servers? The code sharing through Google Drive?
According to IT, when you first (never before) start it up it tries to look up an address and starts throwing errors right away when it encounters a proxy server but no errors if it doesn’t. It’s not that PROS needs an internet connection to function after it’s running, but that it seems to need one to finish set up after the initial download. IT said they found lots of similar comments coming from groups in China encountering similar issues with proxy servers, but the fixes weren’t quite the same.
I see; that’s probably for analytics.
You can get around it by just manually copying the appropriate files into Program Files and setting the appropriate environment variables based on an installation from a non-proxied computer.
This is the first I’m hearing of it. PROS needs an internet connection at the end of installation to download the kernel, which is probably why you’re seeing that. There should only be requests to the GitHub API from our installer. If you can let me know more details about your IT department’s requirements, I might be able to give some recommendations.
I don’t really understand how this is relevant.
Oops – I misread one of the previous posts. I was under the false impression that the installer was trying to reach the internet.