BBB connecting to Internet at initialization: Why, and how to not?

[BBBMAD]

Hi everybody,

Why BBB client must connect to adobe.com at the beggining of a meeting (reasons in details if possible, thanks)?

Is this connection is necessary each time a client went to join a meeting - or just once?

And the last: is it a parameter in BBB server (0.8) to set the client not to connect to Internet but on BBB server for these purpose?

Thanks in advance,

[Richard Alam]

Hi,

The flash player needs to download a few external run-time shared
libraries (RSL) from Adobe to be able to run BigBlueButton.
We don't have any control of which libraries it needs to download.

Did you compile the client yourself?

We have set the build to compile the libraries statically to prevent
Flash Player from downloading the libraries. The side effect is that
the SWF files are larger. But I guess, Flash still needs more
libraries even if the RSLs are statically compiled.

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/blob/master/bigbluebutton-client/build.xml#L5

Richard


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[Seun Ojedeji]

Wew! Never knew internet connection is always required as mine normally connects without!

Cheers!

OJ
sent from google nexus

[Richard Alam]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Seun Ojedeji <seun.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wew! Never knew internet connection is always required as mine normally
> connects without!
>

There was some thread on this a few months back where the client
doesn't start properly because the user did not
have internet connection.

https://groups.google.com/group/bigbluebutton-users/browse_thread/thread/4450aaf2c5bfdac6

Richard

[Michaël Meinertzhagen]

Hi Richard,

I think that will solve my problem ! I'm desesperatly trying to setup a bbb server in a WAN environment without success and since this same server works on a LAN with internet access I think your work should help.
How may I test ? Could you, or someone else, compile a client with your change ?

If you need logs, tests results or anything else, feel free to ask :)

Thank you

On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:16:26 PM UTC+2, Richard Alam wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:05 PM, BBBMAD wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Why BBB client must connect to adobe.com at the beggining of a meeting
> (reasons in details if possible, thanks)?
>
> Is this connection is necessary each time a client went to join a meeting -
> or just once?
>
> And the last: is it a parameter in BBB server (0.8) to set the client not to
> connect to Internet but on BBB server for these purpose?

The flash player needs to download a few external run-time shared
libraries (RSL) from Adobe to be able to run BigBlueButton.
We don't have any control of which libraries it needs to download.

Did you compile the client yourself?

We have set the build to compile the libraries statically to prevent
Flash Player from downloading the libraries. The side effect is that
the SWF files are larger. But I guess, Flash still needs more
libraries even if the RSLs are statically compiled.

https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton/blob/master/bigbluebutton-client/build.xml#L5

Richard


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[Hassan Choobin]

i cant find build.xml file
please help me

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Hassan,

You've already posted this question to

  https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bigbluebutton-setup/5RWDJS7j5So/d1JoWDD2a8UJ

Don't double-post.  Also, neither this thread or the above thread or this thread has to do with the build.xml.  

For the location of the build.xml.  See

  http://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/DevelopingBBB#Build_the_client

where it states

Let's now build the client Note we're not making any changes yet -- we're going to build the client to ensure it works.

cd ~/dev/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-client

First, we'll build the locales (language translation files). If your not modifying the locales, you need only do this once.

cd ~/dev/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-client


ant locales

The command `ant` uses build.xml, which you'll find in cd ~/dev/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-client.

If your not familiar with development of Flash or Java applications, give yourself a chance to learn some of the basics for development.  If you hit an error, google the error message first.  There's an excellent chance that you'll find answers on the web faster than posting basic development questions and waiting.

Regards,... Fred

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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Hassan Choobin <choob...@gmail.com> wrote:

i cant find build.xml file
please help me

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[Seun Ojedeji]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Fred Dixon <ffd...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Hassan,

.... There's an excellent chance that you'll find answers on the web faster than posting basic development questions and waiting.

Better still, there is an option t install from packages...you may want to consider that.

Cheers!

Regards,... Fred

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On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Hassan Choobin <choob...@gmail.com> wrote:

i cant find build.xml file
please help me

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