Push messaging through a proxy

IBM Traveler supports the sending of APNS and GCM message through a proxy server.

If you need to send APNS or GCM message through a proxy server in your environment, you need to configure the set of notes.ini settings that begin with NTS_PUSH for the messages you want routed through the proxy. The full list can be found in Notes.ini settings. Servers that do not have outgoing internet access allowed would be candidates for using a proxy so that the APNS or GCM messages can be sent through a proxy server that is allowed outgoing internet access.

For each message type, you would need to set the _SERVER and _PORT values. If the proxy requires authentication, then you would also need to set _PASSWORD and _USER to allow IBM Traveler to authenticate with the proxy. All settings can be configured using notes.ini, but _PASSWORD and _USER can also be configured using the offline utilities command <link>._TYPE. The command <link>._TYPE currently only supports HTTP, so it should remain unchanged.

Each Apple app has its own APNS configuration, its own certificate used for signing, and its own server to send the message to, so there are many combinations of those settings for APNS. The app versions that come from the Apple App Store would all be using the non-sandbox, production settings. As a result, those are the only ones that would need to be configured.