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Best practices must be followed to deploy it to your user's population to ensure that the Axway Desktop Client installation is properly secured.Īs explained above, Axway Desktop Client needs a specific flash player DLL called Pepper to render the flash application.

The automatic updates of this utility are disabled to sanctify the use of Flash.

This tool checks the certificates of HTTPS websites.

In addition to this whitelist implemented at the browser level, we also use a functionality of the Flash pepper DLL to implement a whitelist at its level.

This security mechanism therefore prohibits access to any site that you do not consider as trusted. Only the sites defined (typically Axway product addresses) in this whitelist will be accessible.

This tool comes with a whitelist file.

This tool needs a Flash plugin implemented for Chrome and called Pepper which the user must provide to the tool.

This tool uses the Electron framework, which is based on the Google’s open source web browser project Chromium.

About Axway Desktop ClientĪxway Desktop Client is as a headless browser that uses the customer flash player DLL to allow users to continue to connect to Axway applications. As traditional browsers will most likely suppress the possibility to use Adobe Flash player in their future updates, using Axway Desktop Client will allow you to still have a limited browser to manage your existing Axway Products. By Design, Axway components are safe and do not present any security risk, so Axway Desktop Client provides a way to restrict the user to connect only to this Axway Application.Īxway Desktop Client needs to be installed on users' workstations in a secure way as we described in the following documentation. Axway Desktop Client does not resolve Flash Security issues, and does not offer a new way to render Flash, but it can be configured to safely execute the client tier of a handful of Axway’s components using the Adobe flash DLL provided by Adobe to the customers. To address this situation, and help our customers in this transition time, Axway released a new tool called Axway Desktop Client. Nevertheless, some Axway customers might not be able to migrate to a flash-free solution prior to the December 2020 deadline.

Therefore, the end of life of Adobe Flash Player may have important impacts on your experience with Axway products.Īxway has put considerable effort to redevelop the majority of its UIs into HTML. Several versions of some Axway products still in use and still supported by Axway are embedding Flash components, and it is a technical prerequisite to have a browser with a Flash runtime to make the solution run.