I recently found out why autoprovisioning doesn't work for my Activesync server on Android. It turns out Android's implementation is only doing a small portion of the procedure described in this whitepaper: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332063%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx When I use this page: https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/Default.aspx to test my server, it confirms that everything is in working order.
I went looking for the source on http://android.kernel.org and found the source of the email application done by Marc Blank: // There are up to four attempts here; the two URLs that we're supposed to try per the // specification, and up to one redirect for each (handled in postAutodiscover) // Note: The expectation is that, of these four attempts, only a single server will // actually be identified as the autodiscover server. For the identified server, // we may also try a 2nd connection with a different format (bare name). // Try the domain first and see if we can get a response HttpPost post = new HttpPost("https://"; + domain + AUTO_DISCOVER_PAGE); setHeaders(post, false); post.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml"); post.setEntity(new StringEntity(req)); HttpClient client = getHttpClient(COMMAND_TIMEOUT); HttpResponse resp; try { resp = postAutodiscover(client, post, true / *canRetry*/); } catch (IOException e1) { userLog("IOException in autodiscover; trying alternate address"); // We catch the IOException here because we have an alternate address to try post.setURI(URI.create("https://autodiscover."; + domain + AUTO_DISCOVER_PAGE)); // If we fail here, we're out of options, so we let the outer try catch the // IOException and return null resp = postAutodiscover(client, post, true / *canRetry*/); } It's the part where the autodiscovery process should query the SRV- record _autodiscover._tcp.domain.com which is missing and messing up any possibility for a clean autoprovisioning. I'm not a developer myself and am hoping some of you are. Is there some way to mature the email application in Android and get the full procedure implemented? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
