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Stop AIR 4 captive runtime app from pinging airdownload2.adobe.com

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
November 24, 2013
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I've created an AIR 4.0.0.1090 captive runtime app for both OS X and Windows. Upon launch, the app fires off an undesired ping to airdownload2.adobe.com. How can I stop this from happening?

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chrisa63536357

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Has anyone got any way to disable the App Analytics as it is stopping my client releasing an app to the app store?

User Unknow

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Before you will do this - please read license agreements.
also... you want stop pinging adobe but you will by pinging apple anyway. Do you know that? Just turn on proxy and check. Each app throw some request if net is available

flashdictionary

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Anton,

It appears that you do not understand the question and concern here. The other members in this post are looking for an answer as to whether Adobe will modify the captive runtime so that it does not ping the airdownload2.adobe.com servers.

If Adobe wants to capture statistics of the use of the AIR runtime, then please allow Adobe to provide the authoritative answer. And if this is the case, then let it be called out that the url airdownload2.adobe.com is not the best self-documenting url to perform this statistic gathering action.

artema33872331

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Same here. I do app like a manager for user security information and for sure user should be sure ANY requests will be not happen from app to internet! So Adobe should to make option to disable thisrequest, or they can approve that i can patch AIR binary file to block this unpleasantness.

User Unknow

Legend

I think yo no need to aware this. Adobe offer you Adobe Air for free and may be they want to know amount of Air install over the world. From where do you think they know how many people use it? If they can get some stats - this can help improve products.

stolennicknameAuthor

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If this is true, then this issue becomes a lot larger privacy issue. I should let my end users know that by using my software, they are being tracked. There should be an opt out mechanism, preferably on the application/publisher end.

I am completely in the dark on this and would now more than ever appreciate a clear answer on this ping issue.

User Unknow

Legend

You can launch any HTTP/SSL proxy and found that any 4 from 5 executed app sending packets to the server. Doesn't matter who develop it and what software was used. I have mail agents that ping each 10 sec POP3 servers. My antivirus pinging 4 times per day for datebase updates and etc.

Also this can be auto-updating checking for Adobe Air. Looks like do you use *.AIR and not EXE/APP file?

stolennicknameAuthor

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This is still occurring with AIR 4.0.0.1390.

flashdictionary

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Have you logged this as a bug at bugbase.adobe.com?

stolennicknameAuthor

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Yes, this is logged as a bug. No response yet.

stolennicknameAuthor

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This is still occurring with AIR 4.0.0.1320.

stolennicknameAuthor

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This is still occurring with AIR 4.0.0.1240.

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