[Owncloud] ownCoud and web hotel

[Alessandro Cosentino]

@danimo: lol at "hotel WiFi" :) I am pretty sure he meant:
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webhotel

Alessandro (aka zimba12)

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Daniel Molkentin <danimo at owncloud.com>wrote:

> Hi Karl,
>
> On 05.11.2012, at 12:01, Karl-Arne Gjersøyen wrote:
>
> Hello again.
> I installed ownCloud on my web hotel as a subdomain.
> (http://nettsky.karl-arne.name)
> The web interface for login is working well. But when installed a
> client on Windows 7, it can't synchronize with the cloud on my hotel.
> It is because the ownCloud application use specific ports to
> communicate or is it something els?
>
>
> So you're saying your on a hotel WiFi? As long as you can use your
> web browser, you should be able to use the ownCloud client, since it
> does only use HTTP or HTTP (Ports 80/443). However,
> some hotspots employ transparent proxies that cannot deal with
> WEBDAV, a HTTP extension required for ownCloud. Fixing this is
> quite simple: Use HTTPS. proxies will not (and cannot) interfere with
> HTTPS content. Even if you are using a self-signed certificate, and
> accept the connection from a trusted location, this is a lot better
> than not using any encryption at all, especially in public wifi hotspots,
> _everyone_ in the area can read your traffic, steal your session ID, etc.
>
> Otherwise: follow the instructions at
> https://github.com/owncloud/mirall/blob/master/doc/troubleshooting.rst
> for furthe debugging.
>
> Cheers,
>   Daniel
>
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