Player calling home???

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Mon, 12/14/2009 - 22:20

Joined: 11/21/2009

Points: 14

Hi guys - third time lucky, but I won't hold my breath.

I have already posted the following in the server and player forums & haven't had a reply - hoping I might get some sort of response from this one.

Trialing KalturaCE on a SLES 10 box (virgin box with lampp - worked straight off) - sitting on an isolated network with user ID/password proxy access out to the internet.
Really happy until I noticed the proxy auth box coming up every time I opened a page with the players embedded.
Wound up wireshark & looks like the client PC is heading out to kaltura.com, first off to GET crossdomain.xml & then another GET to <a href="http://kaltura.com/tracker?kpartner_id=KALTURACOM_PARTNER_ID&referer=" title="http://kaltura.com/tracker?kpartner_id=KALTURACOM_PARTNER_ID&referer=">http://kaltura.com/tracker?kpartner_id=KALTURACOM_PARTNER_ID&referer=</a>............................... blah blah
I've had a look around & can't see where this has been mentioned before - is this new/old/known? Is there a way to stop it?
This is no use to me if my users have to keep cancelling proxy auth boxes every time they want to see a local vid.
Thanks for any help you can give.

This is really going to be a show-stopper for me if there is no way around - just wanting to know if I should go looking elsewhere.

Any help, or even a response, is greatly appreciated

Phil

Fri, 12/18/2009 - 09:51

lucky666

Joined: 11/21/2009

Points: 14

For anyone interested, both IdoSet and Kalturian have responded to my post in the Server forum.

Yes, the call home can be turned off.

This is from Kalturian :

Here's how to disable the 'call home' feature:
In kConf.php file, located in:

kalturaInstallationFolder/kaltura/alpha/config/kConf.php
find line:

"track_kdpwrapper" => true,

Change to:

"track_kdpwrapper" => false,
That should stop the 'call home' feature in the KDP.

Phil