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["Winders, Timothy A" <twinders AT southplainscollege.edu>]

The problem with no longer supporting iOS 5 is the iPad 1 can’t run anything newer, it’s stuck on iOS 5.  The only option would be to manually configure the device for eduroam, rather than using the CAT tool.

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Tim Winders

Associate Dean of Information Technology

South Plains College

(806) 716-2369

From: Stefan Winter <stefan.winter AT restena.lu>
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 6:36 AM
To: Rachid Malti <rachid.malti AT u-bordeaux.fr>, <cat-users AT geant.net>, <soc AT univ-bordeaux.fr>
Subject: Re: [cat-users] Eduroam fails ton install on ipad1 with iOS 5.3

Hi again,

The eduroam software available at https://cat.eduroam.org/?idp=323

fails to install on an ipad 1 with iOS 5.1.1

with the following message : Safari was unable to install a profil because of an unknown error.

We are not aware of contents of our mobileconfig profiles which would not be supported in iOS 5. There is a leap in supported features according to Apple specs of "iOS 5 and above" and "iOS 7 and above" though. Your profiles do not use Hotspot 2.0/Passpoint (which is a iOS 7+ feature), so I'm a bit at a loss what the problem could be. The "unknown error" also isn't exactly helpful.

Does the same profile install okay on iOS 6 and above devices?

Did a CAT 1.0 generated profile install okay on this iOS 5.1.1 device?

On closer look, I have a suspicion. Our new friend "Proxy Auto Detection" is supported in iOS 5, but the extension " ProxyPACFallbackAllowed" which we ship has availability iOS 7 and later.

Prof. Malti, would you be willing to accept an emailed (and unsigned) mobileconfig from me which has the suspect functionality disabled?

It might take until next week until I find the time to actually craft the modified file. If this turns out to be the problematic feature, we'll have to see if we splice off a separate download button "iOS 5" or maybe declare iOS 5 support discontinued. I would feel bad about the latter, iOS 5.1.1 is from 2012 and there may still be many such devices out there.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter


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