Audio and video meeting support for mobile users
IBM® Sametime® Mobile Meetings clients connect to the Sametime Proxy Server for audio and video support. How they connect is determined by the Meeting Server configuration and whether they connect through an authenticating proxy.
If the Meeting Server configuration on the mobile client uses an
authenticating proxy (also called a reverse proxy), it connects to
the Sametime Proxy server
using the same authenticating proxy address, port, and credentials.
Therefore the authenticating proxy should be configured to direct
traffic to the appropriate server, either by using the Client-Type
in the HTTP header (meetings traffic uses the STM Meetings
value,
and Sametime proxy traffic
uses the Sametime Mobile
value) or by using the URL
path (meetings traffic uses a path that begins with /stmeetings
,
while the Sametime Proxy
uses /stwebapi
).
"mobile.stProxySSLAddress":"https:\/\/auth_proxy_server:authproxy_port"
- If the client connects to the Meeting Server through an authenticating
proxy and there is no
mobile.stProxySSLAddress
configuration parameter in the server configuration, the device connects to the Sametime Proxy Server using the same authenticating proxy address, port, and credentials as the connection to the Meeting Server. This is the default scenario and requires no changes to the server configuration. - If the client connects to the Meeting Server through an authenticating
proxy and finds a
mobile.stProxySSLAddress
configuration parameter in the server configuration, then the device connects to the Sametime Proxy Server using the address and port specified by the configuration parameter. If the connection attempt encounters a 401 Basic Authentication challenge, the same credentials that were used with the Meeting Server connection are used. - If the client connects to the Meeting Server without using an
authenticating proxy (as is the case when a mobile client uses a VPN
or the Meeting Server is internet accessible), then the device connects
to the Sametime Proxy
Server using the address and port found in the
meetingroomcenter.stProxySSLAddress
configuration parameter. This is the same parameter the browser client uses to make the connection to the server, so it is generally already present in the server configuration.